The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 11

‘We will first go and see our own dear grandmother, and tell her where our step-mother is sending us.’

Who acts: We, step mother · What happens: go, see, tell, send · To what, where: own dear grandmother, sister, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, step mother), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandmother	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandmother	amod
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandmother	amod
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 sending	advmod
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
18	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 step	punct
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sending	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sending	aux
22	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tell	ccomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sending	iobj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	future	We			first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	We not said here	our own dear grandmother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	We not said here		sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	send	present · progressive	our step mother		us		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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