The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 87

‘If you have me, you need no one else: I will serve you as I served your father, if you will only listen to what I say.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, need, serve, listen, say · To what, where: me, one, you, father · 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 (you, I), 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	_	8 need	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 need	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 serve	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 serve	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	aux
15	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 serve	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 served	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 served	nsubj
19	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 serve	advcl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 served	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 listen	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 listen	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 listen	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 listen	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 listen	advmod
27	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 serve	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 what	case
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 listen	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	need	present	you	no one	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	serve	future	I	you	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
4	serve	past	I	your father	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute
5	listen a condition, not said to happen	future	you		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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