The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 62

‘Many things may happen to delay our journey, and I need not remind you of our contract that the moment the sun sets I cease to be your servant.

Who acts: Many things, I, moment, our · What happens: happen, delay, not remind, set, cease, be · To what, where: journey, you, servant

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 (Many things, I, moment, our), 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	_	5 happen	punct
2	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happen	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 delay	mark
7	delay	delay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happen	xcomp
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 journey	nmod:poss
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delay	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remind	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remind	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remind	nsubj
13	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remind	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 remind	advmod
15	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happen	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remind	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 contract	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 contract	nmod:poss
19	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remind	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 sets	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sets	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sets	nsubj
25	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remind	advcl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 cease	nsubj
27	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sets	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	31 servant	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 servant	cop
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 servant	nmod:poss
31	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cease	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	may	Many things				tree rules
2	delay	to-infinitive	Many things not said here	our journey			vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent journey=Source
3	not remind speech: other	present	I		you	of our contract	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of contract=Topic
4	set	present	the moment				tree rules
5	cease	present	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	your servant			tree rules
7	journey		our				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	contract		our				nom contract «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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