The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 78

Have we your leave to dig for it?’

What happens: have, dig · To what, where: we

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Have	obj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leave	nmod:poss
4	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dig	mark
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leave	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dig	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		we					tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive						for leave	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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