The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 27

Then I will turn my head back, and with my bill will clean my wings, so that you may know me.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: turn back, clean, know, bill · To what, where: head, wings, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turn	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clean	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bill	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bill	nmod:poss
12	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clean	obl
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 clean	aux
14	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clean	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 know	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 clean	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	future	I	my head	then		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	clean	future		my wings		with my bill	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wing=Patient with bill=Instrument
3	know	may	you	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	bill		my				nom bill «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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