The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 79

‘I am content, Fet-Fruners,’ replied the emperor, ‘and when I am dead it is you who will sit upon my throne; for I have yet no son to come after me.

Who acts: I, content · What happens: be, reply, sit, have, come · To what, where: content, emperor, you, throne, son

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, content), 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	_	4 content	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 content	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 content	cop
4	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Fet	punct
6	Fet	Fet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 content	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Fruners	punct
8	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fet	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 content	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 content	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 emperor	det
13	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 emperor	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 dead	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 dead	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 replied	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 you	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 you	cop
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 dead	appos
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sit	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sit	aux
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dead	parataxis
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 throne	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 throne	nmod:poss
29	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
34	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 son	advmod
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 son	det
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 come	mark
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 son	acl
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	content				tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	content	the emperor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic
3	is	present	I				dead property	tree rules
4	is a	present	content	you				tree rules
5	sit	future			my throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location
6	have	present	I	no son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
7	come	to-infinitive	I not said here	no son not said here		after me		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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