The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 12
To smooth away your wrinkles, we would gladly shed our blood, for our lives are bound up in yours; and this you know.’
Who acts: we, this · What happens: smooth away, shed, bind up, know · To what, where: wrinkles, blood, lives
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 (we, this), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 smooth | mark |
| 2 | smooth | smooth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shed | advcl |
| 3 | away | away | ADP | _ | 2 smooth | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wrinkles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smooth | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 smooth | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shed | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shed | aux |
| 9 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 10 shed | advmod |
| 10 | shed | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bound | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 bound | mark |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bound | aux:pass |
| 18 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shed | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 bound | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 yours | case |
| 21 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bound | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 know | nsubj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shed | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth away | to-infinitive | we not said here | your wrinkles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrinkle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shed | would | we | our blood | gladly property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source | |||
| 3 | bind up | present · passive | our lives | in yours | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in your=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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