The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 74

I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come.

Who acts: I, stepmother, better days · What happens: know, be, come · To what, where: you · 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 (I, stepmother, better days), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 unkind	mark
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stepmother	nmod:poss
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unkind	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 unkind	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 unkind	advmod
8	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 unkind	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brave	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 brave	cc
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 brave	cop
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unkind	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 patient	cc
16	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brave	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 days	amod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	your stepmother	you	unkind property	tree rules
3	is	infinitive	your stepmother not said here		brave property	tree rules
4	be		your stepmother not said here			tree rules
5	come	future	better days			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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