The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 113
‘I am going to set you something very easy to do to-morrow,’ said the old man when his servant entered.
Who acts: I, old man, servant · What happens: go, set, do, say, enter · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old man, servant), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 set | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 easy | advmod |
| 10 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | amod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easy | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 morrow | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 entered | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 servant | nmod:poss |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | nsubj |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme something=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | to morrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | man's servant | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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