The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 129

‘This,’ she said, turning to the king, ‘is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.

Who acts: godmother, ‘ · What happens: say, turn, be, believe, vanish · To what, where: This, girl, you, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, ‘), 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	_	2 This	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 This	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 This	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turning	punct
8	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turning	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 girl	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 girl	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 girl	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turning	advcl
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 believed	obl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 believed	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 believed	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 believed	advmod
21	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 girl	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	25 sister	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sister	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 believed	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 vanished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 vanished	cc
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 vanished	nsubj
29	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
30	during	during	ADP	_	32 siege	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 siege	det
32	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vanished	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	godmother	This			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	turn	gerund	godmother not said here			to the king result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result
3	is a	present	‘	the girl			tree rules
4	believe	present · perfect · passive		you		the girl obl; always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	is a	to-infinitive		your sister			tree rules
6	vanish	past			during the siege		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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