The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 106
Have the good spirits visited you, and granted you the strength and wisdom that you desire?”
Who acts: you, good spirits · What happens: have, visit, grant, desire · To what, where: you, strength
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 (you, good spirits), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirits | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spirits | amod |
| 4 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 visited | nsubj |
| 5 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 visited | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 granted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 granted | cc |
| 9 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 visited | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 granted | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strength | det |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 granted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wisdom | cc |
| 14 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strength | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 desire | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | nsubj |
| 17 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strength | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | visit | past | the good spirits | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | grant | past | the good spirits not said here | the strength and wisdom | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal strength=Theme | |||
| 4 | desire | present | you | the strength and wisdom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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