The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 85
‘I want to go to the emperor who is our over-lord, and I have no one to advise me.
Who acts: I, emperor · What happens: want, go, be, have, advise · To what, where: over-lord, one, me
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 (I, emperor), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 over-lord | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 over-lord | cop |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 over-lord | nmod:poss |
| 12 | over-lord | over-lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emperor | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 advise | mark |
| 20 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 one | acl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 advise | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to the emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to emperor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the emperor | our over-lord | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | no one not said here | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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