The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 23

‘Good-morning, granny; our step-mother has sent us to wait upon you, and serve you.’

Who acts: Good morning · What happens: send, wait, serve · To what, where: step mother, us, you

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 (Good morning), 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	_	4 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 granny	punct
6	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
9	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mother	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 step	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 morning	acl
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sent	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wait	mark
16	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wait	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 serve	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 serve	cc
21	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wait	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 serve	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	present · perfect · passive	Good morning and granny not said here	our step mother	us		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination we=Theme
2	wait	to-infinitive	Good morning and granny not said here			upon you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location
3	serve	infinitive	Good morning and granny not said here	you			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute

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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