The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 74
Go back to the emperor and ask him for twenty ships filled with precious merchandise.
Who acts: you · What happens: go back, ask, fill · To what, where: brother, twenty ships
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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 emperor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ships | case |
| 10 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ships | nummod |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obl |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ships | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 merchandise | case |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 merchandise | amod |
| 15 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | imperative | you not said here | to the emperor result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to emperor=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | brother | for twenty ships | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fill | participle | twenty ships not said here | with precious merchandise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with merchandise=Instrument |
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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