The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 39

‘I have nothing to give you save my life; even the coat on my back belongs to my master, whom I serve for my keep and my clothes.’

Who acts: I, coat, my · What happens: have, give, save, belong, serve, keep · To what, where: nothing, you, life

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, coat, my), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	xcomp
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 belongs	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 coat	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coat	det
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belongs	nsubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coat	nmod
18	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 master	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 belongs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 master	nmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 serve	nsubj
25	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 whom	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 keep	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 keep	nmod:poss
28	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 serve	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 clothes	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 clothes	nmod:poss
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 keep	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	you		tree rules
3	save	infinitive	I not said here	my life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	belong	present	the coat on my back			to my master	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	serve	present	I			for my keep and my clothes	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for keep=Recipient
6	keep		my				nom keep «possession 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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