The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 33
‘Yes, my old comrade, you have served me well; and it is only through your help that up to now I have been victorious.
Who acts: you, Wisdom, I · What happens: serve, be · To what, where: me, help
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Wisdom, 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 | _ | 6 comrade | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 comrade | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comrade | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 comrade | amod |
| 6 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 served | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 served | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 served | aux |
| 10 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 comrade | acl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 served | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 served | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 help | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 help | nmod:poss |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comrade | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 up | nsubj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 help | compound |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 up | fixed |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 victorious | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 victorious | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 victorious | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 victorious | cop |
| 28 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 help | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comrade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · perfect | you | me | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | Wisdom | your help | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I | now | victorious property | tree rules |
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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