The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 87
‘Sire, we have come from very far away to show you a beautiful portrait.’
Who acts: we · What happens: come, show · To what, where: Sire, beautiful portrait, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Sire | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 away | case |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 show | mark |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 portrait | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 portrait | amod |
| 16 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | we | Sire not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | we not said here | a beautiful portrait | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient portrait=Topic |
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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