The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 72
‘I am your godmother, and have come to pay you a visit.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, come, pay · To what, where: godmother, you
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 godmother | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 godmother | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 godmother | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 godmother | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 visit | det |
| 14 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 godmother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | your godmother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | your godmother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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