The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 56
‘My beautiful dove,’ replied the emperor, ‘both I and all I possess are yours, so ask your will, and you shall have it.’
Who acts: beautiful dove, I, both, you · What happens: reply, possess, be, ask, have · To what, where: emperor, yours, dove
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 (beautiful dove, I, both, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dove | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dove | amod |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dove | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ask | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yours | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 yours | punct |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 yours | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 yours | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yours | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 yours | nsubj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 possess | nsubj |
| 17 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 yours | cop |
| 19 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ask | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 ask | advmod |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 will | nmod:poss |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 ask | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ask | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 ask | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My beautiful dove | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | I | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | both | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | shall | you | dove | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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