The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 120
I, Thy servant, come to Thee for succour.
Who acts: servant · What happens: come · To what, where: Thee
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 servant | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 servant | punct |
| 3 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 servant | nmod:poss |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 servant | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Thee | case |
| 8 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 succour | case |
| 10 | succour | succour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | Thy servant not said here | Thee | for succour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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