The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 13
‘Noble Sovereign, I may not think of marriage till my stud of horses has been brought me, with their trappings all complete.’
Who acts: Noble Sovereign · What happens: not think, bring · To what, where: stud
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noble Sovereign), 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 | _ | 3 Sovereign | punct |
| 2 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sovereign | amod |
| 3 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 think | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sovereign | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 brought | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stud | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stud | nmod |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 think | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trappings | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 trappings | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | advcl |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 complete | advmod |
| 25 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brought | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | may | Noble Sovereign | of marriage | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | my stud of horses | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination |
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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