The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 53

The old emperor, who had got back long since, came to the door to meet her, and touching her shining armour, he said, ‘Did I not tell you, my child, that flies do not make honey?’

Who acts: old emperor, emperor, I, flies · What happens: get back, come, meet, touch, shine, say · To what, where: door, girl, armour, child, you, honey · 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 (old emperor, emperor, I, flies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 emperor	amod
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 emperor	acl:relcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 since	advmod
10	since	since	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 emperor	punct
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 door	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 meet	mark
17	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 meet	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touching	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 touching	cc
21	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 came	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touching	obj
23	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 touching	advcl
24	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shining	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Did	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Did	punct
30	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 tell	nsubj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 tell	advmod
33	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Did	ccomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 child	punct
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 child	nmod:poss
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 flies	det
40	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 make	nsubj
41	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 make	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 make	advmod
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
44	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	past · perfect	the old emperor				since property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	the old emperor			the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	meet	to-infinitive	the old emperor not said here	girl				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
4	touch	gerund	the old emperor not said here	girl				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
5	shine	gerund	the old emperor not said here	armour				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent armour=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	emperor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	past						tree rules
8	not tell speech: assert	present	I	my child	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
9	not make	present · do-support	that flies	honey				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Product

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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