The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 66
Besides, you are under the protection of a Fairy, who always visits your father’s court at this season.
Who acts: you, protection · What happens: be, visit · To what, where: protection, court
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, protection), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 protection | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 protection | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protection | cop |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 protection | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 protection | det |
| 7 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fairy | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Fairy | det |
| 10 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protection | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 visits | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 visits | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 visits | advmod |
| 14 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protection | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 court | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visits | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 season | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 season | det |
| 21 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visits | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 protection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | the protection | of a Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | visit | present | the protection | your father's court | season | always property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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