The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 130
She is not your sister at all, but the daughter of the king of a neighbouring country, who was given to your mother to bring up, to save her from the hands of a wizard.’
Who acts: godmother · What happens: not be, neighbour, give, bring up, save · To what, where: sister, all, neighbouring country, mother, godmother, hands
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sister | advmod |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sister | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 daughter | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 given | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 country | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 given | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 bring | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 save | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 save | mark |
| 31 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bring | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 save | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 hands | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hands | det |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 save | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wizard | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wizard | det |
| 38 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hands | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | godmother | your sister but the daughter of the king of a neighbouring country | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | a neighbouring country | your mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to mother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bring up | to-infinitive | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | godmother | the hands of a wizard | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from hand=Source |
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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