The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 16

‘Go to my third sister, for she has a son who is keeper of the birds of the air, and sends them to sleep when night comes.

Who acts: you, sister, son, night · What happens: go, have, be, send, sleep, come · To what, where: son, keeper, birds

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sister, son, night), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 sister	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 has	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 keeper	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 keeper	cop
15	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 birds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 birds	det
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 keeper	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 birds	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sends	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sends	cc
24	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sends	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sends	advcl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 comes	advmod
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 comes	nsubj
30	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sleep	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		to my third sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location
2	have	present	sister	a son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	present	a son	keeper	of the birds of the air	tree rules
4	send	present	sister not said here	birds = bird		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	sleep	to-infinitive	sister not said here			tree rules
6	come	present	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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