The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 83
‘May success await on the steps of my master’s daughter, for she has given me back my life.
Who acts: success · What happens: await, give back, step · To what, where: life, me, daughter
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 (success), 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 | _ | 4 await | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 await | aux |
| 3 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 await | nsubj |
| 4 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 steps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steps | det |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 await | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 master | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steps | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 await | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | iobj |
| 19 | back | back | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 await | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | may | success | on the steps of my master's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give back | present · perfect | success | my life | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 3 | step | my master's daughter | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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