The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 58
But cheer up, you are a good girl, and I will give you something that will enable you to see him once every day.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: cheer up, be, give, enable, see · To what, where: good girl, something, you, miser
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 cheer | cc |
| 2 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 cheer | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 girl | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 girl | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cheer | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cheer | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 enable | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 enable | aux |
| 19 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 enable | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 enable | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 see | advmod |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 once | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheer | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer up | present | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a good girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | something | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | enable | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | miser | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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