The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 72
And now, my true friend, I will indeed give you your heart’s desire.’
Who acts: true friend, heart · What happens: give, desire · To what, where: desire, 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 (true friend, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 give | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 desire | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 16 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | my true friend | your heart's desire | you | now | indeed property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient desire=Theme | |
| 2 | 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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