The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 42
'I have come, madam, to make you an offer.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, make · To what, where: madam, offer, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 offer | det |
| 12 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | madam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a offer | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary offer=Product |
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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