The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 18
I have but just returned from doing your bidding, and, behold, you send me on another mission, and stake my head on its fulfilment, when your court is full of valiant young men, pining to win their spurs.
Who acts: I, you, court, your, head, men · What happens: have, return, do, send, stake, be · To what, where: bidding, me, mission, head, fulfilment, spurs
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 (I, you, court, your), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 returned | cc |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 returned | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 send | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 send | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 16 send | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 behold | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 send | nsubj |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 send | iobj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 mission | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mission | det |
| 20 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stake | cc |
| 23 | stake | stake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stake | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 fulfilment | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fulfilment | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fulfilment | fulfilment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stake | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 full | punct |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 full | mark |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 court | nmod:poss |
| 32 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 full | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 full | cop |
| 34 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stake | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 men | case |
| 36 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 men | amod |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 men | amod |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 full | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pining | punct |
| 40 | pining | pine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 full | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 win | mark |
| 42 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 pining | xcomp |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 44 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 win | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return | past | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | I not said here | your bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | send | present | you | me | another mission | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | stake | infinitive | my head | head's fulfilment | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | your court | of valiant young men; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pine | gerund | your court not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | win | to-infinitive | your court not said here | men's spurs | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | bid | your | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | fulfil | head | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | spur | men = man | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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