The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 118
You need not remain any longer in the service of that stingy minister, but when you get home to-morrow go at once to the north corner of the church, and there you will find a large stone built into the wall, but not cemented like the rest.
Who acts: You · What happens: not remain, get, find, build, not cement, service · To what, where: large stone, wall, stingy minister
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 remain | advmod |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 remain | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 service | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 service | det |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 longer | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 minister | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 minister | det |
| 12 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minister | amod |
| 13 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 service | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | parataxis |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 get | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 go | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | compound |
| 23 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 get | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 corner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 corner | det |
| 28 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 corner | compound |
| 29 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 once | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 church | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 church | det |
| 32 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 corner | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 find | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 find | cc |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 find | advmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 find | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | aux |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 stone | det |
| 40 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 stone | amod |
| 41 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obj |
| 42 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 stone | acl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 wall | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wall | det |
| 45 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 built | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 cemented | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 cemented | cc |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 cemented | advmod |
| 49 | cemented | cement | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 find | conj |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 rest | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 rest | det |
| 52 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 cemented | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remain | present | You | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | you | to morrow go result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to go=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | a large stone | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | |||
| 4 | build | participle | a large stone not said here | the wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into wall=Product | ||||
| 5 | not cement | participle | you not said here | like the rest | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | service | that stingy minister | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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