The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 77
‘May a long life be yours, O Sovereign all mighty!’ said she.
Who acts: long life, princess · What happens: be, say · To what, where: yours · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long life, princess), 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 | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 yours | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 yours | cop |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sovereign | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 Sovereign | discourse |
| 10 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 yours | conj |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 all | amod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | a long life | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | 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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