The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 16

‘I take you at your word, and mine shall you be, most lovely of empresses!’ cried the emperor, and swung Laptitza and her strawberries on the horse before him.

Who acts: I, mine, your · What happens: take, be, cry, swing, word · To what, where: you, word, emperor, Laptitza

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, mine, your), 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 take	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lovely	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 be	cc
10	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lovely	punct
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 lovely	amod
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cried	advmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 empresses	case
18	empresses	empress	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lovely	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 lovely	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 lovely	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 emperor	det
23	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swung	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swung	cc
26	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cried	conj
27	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 swung	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 strawberries	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 strawberries	nmod:poss
30	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Laptitza	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 horse	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horse	det
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swung	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	I	you	your word			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at word=Asset
2	be	shall	mine					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past		the emperor				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic
4	swing	past		Laptitza and Laptitza's strawberries		before emperor	on the horse	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme laptitza=Result
5	word		your					nom word «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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