The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 33

‘Stay here then a few days, and when you wish to leave I will give you what you ask for in your song--your heart’s desire.’

Who acts: you, I, your, heart · What happens: stay, wish, leave, give, ask, sing · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, your, heart), 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	_	2 Stay	punct
2	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Stay	advmod
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 days	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Stay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wish	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 wish	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Stay	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	xcomp
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leave	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 ask	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 ask	nsubj
21	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 give	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 song	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 song	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 song	nmod:poss
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ask	obl
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 desire	punct
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heart	nmod:poss
28	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 desire	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 heart	case
30	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 song	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Stay	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here		here	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	present	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
4	give	future	I	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	present	you				for your song your heart's desire	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
6	sing		your					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	desire		your heart					nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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.

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