The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 52

‘My sister dear, open; I’m here.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dear	nsubj
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 ’m	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ’m	nsubj
9	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dear	conj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ’m	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	I			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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