The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 45

The young slave of whom I told you about is one of these; I have seen her often, and it has been a great pleasure to me.

Who acts: I, slave · What happens: tell, be, see · To what, where: you, lion, great pleasure, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, slave), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slave	amod
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 told	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slave	acl:relcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 told	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 these	case
13	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 one	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	often	often	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pleasure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pleasure	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pleasure	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pleasure	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 pleasure	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pleasure	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pleasure	amod
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slave	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 pleasure	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you	of the young slave and a great pleasure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	present				about one; of these	tree rules
3	see	present · perfect	I	lion		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	is a	present · perfect	slave	a great pleasure	me		tree rules

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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