The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 15

I have to look after my grandmother, who is very helpless.’

Who acts: I, grandmother · What happens: have, look, be

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 (I, grandmother), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 grandmother	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandmother	nmod:poss
7	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 helpless	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 helpless	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 helpless	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 helpless	advmod
12	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grandmother	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	I not said here	after my grandmother		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	my grandmother		helpless property	tree rules

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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