The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 57

‘Get me, then,’ she said, ‘a flask of the holy water that is kept in a little church beyond the river Jordan, and I will be your wife.’

Who acts: you, love, I · What happens: get, say, ‘, keep, be · To what, where: me, flask, holy water, little church, wife · 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 (you, love, I), 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	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Get	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Get	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Get	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flask	det
13	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ‘	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
16	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flask	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 kept	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	aux:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 water	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 church	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 church	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 church	amod
24	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	28 Jordan	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Jordan	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Jordan	compound
28	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 church	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wife	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wife	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 wife	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wife	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 wife	cop
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	me		then	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	love				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	‘	infinitive	you not said here	a flask of the holy water			tree rules
4	keep	present · passive		the holy water	a little church beyond the river Jordan		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in church=Location
5	is a	future	I	your wife			tree rules

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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