The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 10

My father did not live to see his words come true; but on his death-bed he bade me transplant them here, and to look after them with the greatest care, which I accordingly did.

Who acts: father, words, me, I · What happens: not live, see, come, bade, transplant, look · To what, where: death bed, words, greatest care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, words, me, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 live	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 live	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 words	nmod:poss
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	ccomp
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 come	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 transplant	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 transplant	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 bed	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bed	nmod:poss
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 death	punct
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 transplant	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	nsubj
20	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bed	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 transplant	nsubj
22	transplant	transplant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 live	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 transplant	obj
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 transplant	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 look	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 look	mark
28	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 live	parataxis
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 look	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 care	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 care	det
33	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 care	amod
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 did	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 did	obj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 did	nsubj
38	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	39 did	advmod
39	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 care	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	past · do-support	My father					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	My father not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	present	father's words				true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bade	past	father	father's death bed not said here				tree rules
5	transplant	infinitive	me	words = word	father's death bed; here			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	look	to-infinitive				after words = word	with the greatest care	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	do	past	I	the greatest care			accordingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
8	word		father					nom word «communication 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 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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