The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 26
Do not fear; you will succeed in this also; but, in the end, the emperor’s desires will be his undoing.’
Who acts: you, desires, emperor · What happens: not fear, succeed, be, desire · To what, where: this, undoing, end
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 (you, desires, emperor), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 fear | advmod |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeed | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 succeed | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeed | aux |
| 7 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fear | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 succeed | obl |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 succeed | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 undoing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 undoing | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 undoing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 end | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 emperor | det |
| 19 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 desires | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 emperor | case |
| 21 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 undoing | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 undoing | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 undoing | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 undoing | nmod:poss |
| 25 | undoing | undoing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fear | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | succeed | future | you | this | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | the emperor's desires | emperor's undoing | in the end | tree rules | |||
| 4 | desire | the emperor | nom desire «feeling 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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