The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 22
‘Come to-morrow, and I will make you lady-in-waiting to the Countess,’ and he went on his way.
Who acts: you, I, lady, Countess · What happens: come, make, wait, go · To what, where: morrow, lady, you, way
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 (you, I, lady, Countess), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lady | fixed |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lady | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Countess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Countess | det |
| 19 | Countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | future | I | lady | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary lady=Product | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | lady not said here | to the Countess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Countess | Countess's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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