The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 18
I accept your terms, so take me to my palace.’
Who acts: I, your · What happens: accept, take, term · To what, where: terms, me, palace
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, your), 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 | 2 accept | nsubj |
| 2 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 terms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accept | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 accept | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present | I | your terms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | me | my palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | term | your | nom term «communication 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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