The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 82
And as for the vase of holy water, she thought that, in common politeness, her suitor ought to have fetched it himself, which he could have done without any risk at all.
Who acts: wish, emperor · What happens: think, fetch, do · To what, where: that, suitor, common politeness
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 (wish, emperor), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 vase | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vase | det |
| 5 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 as | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vase | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 politeness | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 politeness | case |
| 15 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 politeness | amod |
| 16 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fetched | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 suitor | nmod:poss |
| 19 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetched | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fetched | aux |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fetched | mark |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fetched | aux |
| 23 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 politeness | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fetched | obj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 fetched | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 done | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 done | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 done | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 done | aux |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 done | aux |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 politeness | acl |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 risk | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 risk | det |
| 34 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 done | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 all | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 risk | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | wish | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | ought · perfect · passive | wish not said here | wish's suitor | emperor obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | could · perfect | emperor | common politeness | without any risk at all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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