The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 110

‘Warriors,’ he told her, ‘only rest when they have won the victory.

Who acts: Warriors, horses · What happens: tell, rest, win · To what, where: remembrance, victory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Warriors, horses), 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	_	2 Warriors	punct
2	Warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Warriors	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Warriors	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rest	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 rest	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 rest	advmod
11	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 won	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 won	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 won	aux
15	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 rest	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 victory	det
17	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 won	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Warriors		remembrance	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	rest	infinitive	Warriors not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	win	present · perfect	horses = horse	the victory		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality

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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