The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 53
I will make his fortune, and will present your monastery with twenty thousand crowns.’
Who acts: I · What happens: make, present · To what, where: fortune, monastery
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 present | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 present | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 present | aux |
| 9 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 monastery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 present | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crowns | case |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | compound |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 crowns | nummod |
| 15 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 present | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | boy's fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Product | ||||
| 2 | present | future | I not said here | your monastery | with thousand crowns | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent monastery=Recipient with crown=Theme |
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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