The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 121
And the sister answered, ‘To-morrow you shall bring her to me, and I will give her something that may help her out of her need.’
Who acts: sister, you, I, Destiny · What happens: answer, bring, give, help, need · To what, where: Destiny, me, morrow, something, need · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, you, I, Destiny), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 To | punct |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 help | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 something | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 need | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 need | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 need | nmod:poss |
| 30 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 help | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the sister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | shall | you | Destiny | me | morrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to morrow=Destination | ||
| 3 | give | future | I | something | Destiny | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | may | Destiny | Destiny's need | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | need | Destiny | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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