The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 11
‘If that is true,’ said the man, ‘you shall take care of my sheep, and I will give you food.
Who acts: that, you, I · What happens: be, say, take, give · To what, where: man, care, food, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, you, I), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 true | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sheep | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | shall | you | care | of my sheep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sheep=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | give | future | I | food | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient food=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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