The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 104

‘We know not, O mighty emperor,’ answered the servant, ‘but they must surely be akin to you, for they have the strength of lions, and have scattered the guards at the gate.

Who acts: We, mighty emperor, boys · What happens: not know, answer, be, have, scatter · To what, where: servant, you, strength, guards, gate

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, mighty emperor, boys), 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 know	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 emperor	parataxis
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 know	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	8 emperor	discourse
7	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 emperor	amod
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 emperor	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 emperor	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servant	det
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 akin	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 akin	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 akin	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 akin	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 akin	aux
19	surely	surely	ADV	_	21 akin	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 akin	cop
21	akin	akin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 akin	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 strength	det
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 lions	case
31	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 strength	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 scattered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 scattered	cc
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 scattered	aux
35	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 have	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 guards	det
37	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 scattered	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 gate	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 gate	det
40	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 scattered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present	We					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past	mighty emperor	the servant				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality
3	is	must	boys = boy		you		akin, surely property	tree rules
4	have	present	boys = boy	the strength of lions				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
5	scatter	present · perfect	boys = boy not said here	the guards		the gate		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent guard=Theme at gate=Destination

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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