The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 60

‘Oh, well, if you must have it, it is in a bottle on the window sill,’ said they, hoping that they might obtain their freedom at once.

Who acts: you, soul, fingers · What happens: have, be, say, hope, obtain · To what, where: soul, bottle, freedom · 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 (you, soul, fingers), 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	_	9 have	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bottle	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bottle	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bottle	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bottle	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bottle	det
16	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 sill	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sill	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sill	compound
20	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bottle	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hoping	punct
26	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 said	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 obtain	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 obtain	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 obtain	aux
30	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hoping	ccomp
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 freedom	nmod:poss
32	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 obtain	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 obtain	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	must	you	soul			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	present	soul		a bottle	on the window sill	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	fingers = finger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hope	gerund	fingers = finger not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	obtain	might	fingers = finger	fingers's freedom			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset freedom=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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