The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 51
‘I will have blessing,’ said the girl; and her mother gave her much blessing, and that night she died.
Who acts: I, girl, mother · What happens: have, say, give, die · 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, mother), 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 | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blessing | amod |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 died | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 died | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 died | nsubj |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | I | blessing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Girl's mother | much blessing | Girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | past | mother | night | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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