The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 47
I brought you up with grief and pain, And now before my eyes you’re slain.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: bring up, be · To what, where: you, slain
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pain | cc |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grief | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’re | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ’re | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 ’re | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ’re | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ’re | nsubj |
| 16 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ’re | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | I | you | with grief and pain | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with grief=Instrument | |||
| 2 | does | present | you | slain | before my eyes; now | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot slain=Theme |
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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