The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 78

Here is good game, which comes very quickly to entertain three ogres of my acquaintance who are to pay me a visit in a day or two.”

Who acts: good game, three ogres, my · What happens: be, come, entertain, acquaint · To what, where: three ogres, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good game, three ogres, my), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 game	amod
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 game	acl:relcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 quickly	advmod
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 comes	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 entertain	mark
11	entertain	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 comes	advcl
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ogres	nummod
13	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 entertain	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 acquaintance	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 acquaintance	nmod:poss
16	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ogres	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pay	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 pay	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pay	mark
20	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ogres	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 pay	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 visit	det
23	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 two	cc
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 day	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	good game				here property	tree rules
2	come	present	good game				quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	entertain	to-infinitive	good game not said here	three ogres of my acquaintance				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ogre=Experiencer
4	is	present	three ogres of my acquaintance	three ogres of my acquaintance not said here	me	day	pay property	tree rules
5	acquaint		my					nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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