The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 80
But if one is given me, and my dearest wish is accomplished, then you shall be his right hand, and guide him with your counsels.’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: give, accomplish, be, guide, wish · To what, where: one, me, dearest wish, right hand, throne
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, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 guide | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 given | mark |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 guide | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accomplished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accomplished | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 wish | amod |
| 11 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 13 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 given | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hand | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 hand | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hand | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hand | cop |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accomplished | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 guide | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 guide | cc |
| 24 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 guide | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 counsels | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 counsels | nmod:poss |
| 28 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 guide | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 guide | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | one | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accomplish | present · passive | my dearest wish | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | shall | you | throne's right hand | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | guide | imperative | you not said here | throne | with your counsels | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | wish | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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