The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 104
I am quite sure she must be the same girl who was brought here instead of me, so I am bound to risk my head in this mad adventure.’
Who acts: I, girl · What happens: be, bring, risk · To what, where: same girl, head, mad adventure
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 girl | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girl | acl |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 brought | advmod |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 me | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bound | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 bound | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bound | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bound | cop |
| 22 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 risk | mark |
| 24 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bound | xcomp |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 risk | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 adventure | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 adventure | det |
| 29 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 adventure | amod |
| 30 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 risk | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | girl | the same girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | the same girl | here | instead me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | risk | to-infinitive | I not said here | my head | this mad adventure | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Pivot |
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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