The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 84

Now, seeing that by your goodness we have been greatly enriched by our former dreams, we wish, in gratitude, to bestow this third treasure on you for your own profit; so give us workers, and we will begin to dig without delay.’

Who acts: we, former dreams, our, your · What happens: see, enrich, wish, bestow, give, begin · To what, where: that, we, gratitude, third treasure, workers, us

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: who acts (we, former dreams, our, your), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seeing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 wish	advcl
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 seeing	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 goodness	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 goodness	nmod:poss
7	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeing	obl
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 enriched	nsubj:pass
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 enriched	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 enriched	aux:pass
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	12 enriched	advmod
12	enriched	enrich	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 goodness	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 dreams	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dreams	nmod:poss
15	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dreams	amod
16	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enriched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gratitude	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 gratitude	case
22	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wish	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bestow	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bestow	mark
25	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	conj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 treasure	det
27	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 treasure	amod
28	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bestow	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 bestow	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 profit	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 profit	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 profit	amod
34	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bestow	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 give	advmod
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	conj
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 give	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 begin	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 begin	cc
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 begin	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 begin	aux
44	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 give	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 dig	mark
46	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 begin	xcomp
47	without	without	ADP	_	48 delay	case
48	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dig	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	we not said here	that			now	by your goodness	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	enrich	present · perfect · passive	our former dreams	we				greatly property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
3	wish	present	we			gratitude			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	bestow	to-infinitive	we not said here	this third treasure				on you; for your own profit	tree rules
5	give	infinitive	we not said here	workers	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient worker=Theme
6	begin	future	we						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	dig	to-infinitive	we not said here					without delay	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	dream		our						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	profit		your						nom profit «possession 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/43/84/