The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 37
Trust me, mistress, and you shall never regret the absence of my brother.
Who acts: you · What happens: trust, not regret, absent · To what, where: me, absence, brother
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), 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 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistress | punct |
| 4 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trust | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 regret | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 regret | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 regret | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 regret | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 regret | advmod |
| 10 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Trust | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 absence | det |
| 12 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regret | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 absence | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | me | mistress vocative | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | not regret | shall | you | the absence of my brother | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | absent | my brother | nom absence «state 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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