The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 78
I have fulfilled this task also, and I hope it is the last you have for me; let another now take his turn.’
Who acts: I, it, you, another · What happens: fulfil, hope, be, have, let, take · To what, where: task, another, turn · 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 (I, it, you, another), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fulfilled | aux |
| 3 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 task | det |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfilled | obj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 fulfilled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hope | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 last | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 last | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hope | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 hope | conj |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 let | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 turn | nmod:poss |
| 25 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fulfilled | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | present · perfect | I | this task | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | it | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | for me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | I not said here | another | now | tree rules | |||
| 6 | take | infinitive | another not said here | hermit's turn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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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