The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 250

We will call you May Blossom.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: call, blossom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 call	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Blossom	nsubj
5	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 Blossom	aux
6	Blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 call	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	future	We						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	blossom	may	you						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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