The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 14

‘And I,’ said Laptitza, ‘will give the man who chooses me two boys, twins, each with a golden star on his forehead, as bright as those in the sky.’

Who acts: I, man · What happens: say, give, choose · To what, where: golden star, man, two boys, me · 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 (I, man), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 chooses	nsubj
15	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 chooses	obj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 boys	nummod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chooses	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 twins	punct
20	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 boys	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 each	punct
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 star	det
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 star	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 star	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 star	amod
26	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 forehead	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 forehead	nmod:poss
29	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 star	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bright	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 bright	case
32	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 give	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 those	case
34	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 bright	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 sky	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sky	det
37	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 those	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	future		each golden star	the man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient star=Theme
3	choose	present	the man	two boys and twins	me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary boy=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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