The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 59
‘This, my mistress,’ said Sunlight, when she was saddling him, ‘is the last and most difficult of your tasks.
Who acts: mistress, ‘, your · What happens: say, saddle, be, task · To what, where: Sunlight · 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 (mistress, ‘, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mistress | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saddling | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saddling | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saddling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saddling | aux |
| 14 | saddling | saddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saddling | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 last | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 last | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 last | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 last | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saddling | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 difficult | cc |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 difficult | advmod |
| 23 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 last | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tasks | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tasks | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 difficult | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | saddle | past · progressive | mistress | Sunlight | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | ‘ | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | ‘ not said here | of your tasks | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | task | your | nom task «act 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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