The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 10
I am here to give her the answer to her riddle.”
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: be, give, riddle · To what, where: answer, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter), 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 | 3 here | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 here | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 riddle | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | the answer | daughter | to daughter's riddle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient answer=Theme | ||
| 3 | riddle | daughter | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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 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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