The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 45

This time the mother said: ‘Now that I am content with the tests I gave, I want you to go and fetch home your brides, and I will prepare the wedding-feast.’

Who acts: mother, I, you · What happens: say, be, give, want, go, fetch · To what, where: content, tests, you, brides, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, you), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 content	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 content	punct
8	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 content	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 content	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 content	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 content	cop
12	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 tests	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tests	det
15	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 content	nmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tests	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 want	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fetch	cc
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 go	conj
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 fetch	advmod
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brides	nmod:poss
28	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fetch	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 prepare	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prepare	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 prepare	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 prepare	aux
33	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 feast	det
35	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feast	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 wedding	punct
37	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 prepare	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 prepare	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 prepare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	I	content	now	with the tests	tree rules
3	give	past	I	the tests not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme
4	want	present	I	you			tree rules
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	your brides		home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme
7	prepare	future	I	the wedding feast			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient

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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