The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 26

The boy you will bring up yourself, but you must entrust the little girl to a nurse.

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: bring up, entrust · To what, where: yourself, little girl, nurse

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 (boy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 bring	compound:prt
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bring	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entrust	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 entrust	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 entrust	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 entrust	aux
12	entrust	entrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girl	amod
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entrust	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 nurse	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nurse	det
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entrust	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	future	the boy	yourself					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	entrust	must	you	the little girl	a nurse				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to nurse=Recipient

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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