The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 65
‘Ah! you are the pretty girl who was to come and save me!’
Who acts: you, pretty girl · What happens: be, come, save · To what, where: pretty girl, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pretty girl), 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 | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 girl | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 girl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 save | cc |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 save | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | the pretty girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the pretty girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | the pretty girl not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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