The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 47
I’m bringing you a big piece of cake for your Sunday treat to-morrow.’
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, treat · To what, where: big piece, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bringing | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bringing | aux |
| 3 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bringing | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bringing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cake | case |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Sunday | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Sunday | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bringing | obl |
| 13 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bringing | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bringing | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · progressive | I | a big piece of cake | you | sunday | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | treat | infinitive | I not said here | to morrow | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to morrow=be' |
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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