The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 61
“I come to bring you good news of your ship Unicorn.”
Who acts: unseasonable · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: good news, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unseasonable), 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ship | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 news | nmod |
| 12 | Unicorn | Unicorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ship | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | unseasonable | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | unseasonable not said here | good news of your ship | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination news=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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