The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 55
At length, when she had come to the end of everything she could think of, she said to him one day: ‘Grant me, Sire, just one request more, and then I will really marry you; for you have waited patiently this long time.’
Who acts: love, I, you · What happens: come, think, say, grant, marry, wait · To what, where: end, length, emperor, me, you · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, I, you), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 come | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 length | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 everything | case |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 end | nmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 length | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 think | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 day | nummod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Grant | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Grant | punct |
| 26 | Grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Grant | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Sire | punct |
| 29 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Grant | vocative |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 request | punct |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 request | advmod |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 request | nummod |
| 33 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Grant | obl |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 request | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 marry | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 marry | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 marry | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 marry | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 marry | aux |
| 40 | really | really | ADV | _ | 41 marry | advmod |
| 41 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Grant | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 marry | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 waited | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 47 waited | mark |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 waited | nsubj |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 waited | aux |
| 47 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 Grant | parataxis |
| 48 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 47 waited | advmod |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 time | det |
| 50 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 time | amod |
| 51 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 waited | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | love | to the end of everything | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | love | length not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot length=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | love | emperor | length | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||
| 4 | grant | infinitive | me | Sire vocative; one request obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | marry | future | I | you | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 6 | wait | present · perfect | you | time | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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