The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 10
‘Very good, my son,’ replied the minister, ‘you shall have the chance of proving your courage this very night.
Who acts: you, chance · What happens: reply, have, prove · To what, where: minister, chance, courage
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 good | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 minister | det |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chance | det |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 proving | mark |
| 20 | proving | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 chance | acl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 courage | nmod:poss |
| 22 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proving | obj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 night | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 night | advmod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proving | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the minister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent minister=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | the chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prove | gerund | the chance not said here | your courage | night | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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