The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 30

But who is to give him the ten years’ service that is part of the price which the vanquished must pay?’

Who acts: service, ten years · What happens: be, vanquish, pay, service · To what, where: head, part, price

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 (service, ten years), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 give	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 give	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 service	nmod:poss
10	’	's	PART	_	9 years	case
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nsubj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 part	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 part	cop
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 price	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 price	det
17	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 part	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 vanquished	nsubj:pass
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vanquished	det
20	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 price	acl:relcl
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pay	aux
22	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 part	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			head	give property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the ten years's service	part		of the price	tree rules
3	vanquish	participle · passive		the price			tree rules
4	pay	must					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	service		the ten years				nom service «act 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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