The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 13

‘That may be so; but come to the castle, and I will make you lady’s maid to the Countess.’

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, make · To what, where: maid, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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	_	8 come	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 come	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maid	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 lady	case
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Countess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Countess	det
23	Countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	That					to the castle; come property	tree rules
2	make	future	I	lady's maid	you			to the Countess	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary maid=Product

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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