The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 45

‘I will have blessing,’ she answered, and her father gave her much blessing.

Who acts: I, Girl, father · What happens: have, answer, give · To what, where: blessing, much blessing, Girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Girl, father), 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blessing	amod
17	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	future	I	blessing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	Girl			tree rules
3	give	past	Girl's father	much blessing	Girl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blessing=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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