The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 8
‘You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood.
Who acts: You, I, granny · What happens: be, go, send, visit, live · To what, where: such good children, you, granny, dear little hut
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 (You, I, granny), 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 | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 children | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 children | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 children | cop |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 children | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 send | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 visit | mark |
| 16 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 send | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 granny | nmod:poss |
| 18 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visit | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lives | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lives | nsubj |
| 21 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 granny | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hut | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hut | det |
| 24 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hut | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hut | amod |
| 26 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lives | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hut | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | You | such good children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | such good children not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | I not said here | my granny | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | live | present | my granny | a dear little hut in the wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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