The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 120
You have filled me with the hope that you may carry out the task you have undertaken, but be careful to forget none of my counsels, and above all to listen to those of your horse.’
Who acts: You, hope, all · What happens: fill, carry out, undertake, be, forget, listen · To what, where: me, task, none
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 (You, hope, all), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hope | det |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hope | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 task | det |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 undertaken | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 undertaken | aux |
| 17 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 task | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 careful | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 careful | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 careful | cop |
| 21 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 filled | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 forget | mark |
| 23 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 careful | advcl |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 forget | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 counsels | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 counsels | nmod:poss |
| 27 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 none | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 listen | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 listen | cc |
| 30 | above | above | ADP | _ | 31 all | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 listen | nsubj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 all | fixed |
| 33 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 filled | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 those | case |
| 35 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 listen | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 horse | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 horse | nmod:poss |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 those | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 listen | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present · perfect | You | me | with the hope | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with hope=Instrument | |||
| 2 | carry out | may | the hope | the task | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | undertake | present · perfect | you | the task not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | You not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget | to-infinitive | You not said here | none | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | listen | infinitive | all | to those | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme |
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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