The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 120

'I have been happy here, Madam, and I thank you for your goodness to me; but I have left behind me a stepsister and a stepmother, and I am fain to be with them once more.'

Who acts: I · What happens: be, thank, leave · To what, where: you, stepsister

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 happy	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 happy	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Madam	punct
8	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thank	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thank	nsubj
12	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thank	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 goodness	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 goodness	nmod:poss
16	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thank	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thank	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	parataxis
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 left	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stepsister	det
27	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stepmother	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stepmother	det
30	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stepsister	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fain	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fain	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 fain	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fain	cop
35	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	39 them	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 them	cop
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fain	advcl
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 happy	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I			here	Madam obl; happy property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	present	I		you		for your goodness; to me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for goodness=Attribute
3	leave	present · perfect	I	a stepsister and a stepmother			behind me	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stepsister=Theme behind i=Location
4	is	present	I				fain property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	I not said here				with stepsister	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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