The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 44

Now I will turn her as well as all her maidens into ducks, and if you can guess which of these ducks is my daughter, then you shall have her to wife.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: turn, guess, be, have · To what, where: princess, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Now	now	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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 turn	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 maidens	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 maidens	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 maidens	nmod:poss
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 ducks	case
13	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guess	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 guess	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 guess	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 guess	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 guess	aux
19	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	parataxis
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 daughter	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ducks	case
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 ducks	det
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 which	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 daughter	cop
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guess	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 have	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 guess	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wife	mark
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	future	I	princess	now	as princess's maidens; into ducks result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into duck=Result
2	guess a condition, not said to happen	can	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		my daughter			tree rules
4	have	shall	you	princess	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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