The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 39
‘Go straight for it, for a sister of mine dwells there, and she will make you right welcome.
Who acts: you, sister · What happens: go, dwell, make · To what, where: right welcome, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. 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), 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 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dwells | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 dwells | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwells | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mine | case |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod |
| 12 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 dwells | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 welcome | amod |
| 21 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | for last; straight property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | dwell | present | a sister of mine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | future | sister | right welcome | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary welcome=Product |
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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