The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 111
‘The emperor commands you to return,’ panted he: ‘the empress wishes to see you.’
Who acts: emperor, empress · What happens: command, return, pant, wish, see · To what, where: you, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (emperor, empress), 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 | _ | 4 commands | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 commands | nsubj |
| 4 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 commands | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 return | mark |
| 7 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 commands | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 panted | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 panted | punct |
| 10 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 commands | parataxis |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 panted | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishes | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 empress | det |
| 15 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wishes | nsubj |
| 16 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 panted | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wishes | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commands | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present | the emperor | you | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pant | past | emperor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | the empress | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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