The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 75

‘I see you are a very useful person, and my mother has need of a fellow like you.

Who acts: I, you, mother · What happens: see, be, have, need · To what, where: useful person, need, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, mother), 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	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 person	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 useful	advmod
8	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 has	cc
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
15	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fellow	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fellow	det
18	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 need	nmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 fellow	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	you	a useful person	tree rules
3	have	present	my mother	need of a fellow like you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	need			a fellow like you	nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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