The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 103
It is for your stepmother, that she may beat it instead of you.
Who acts: figure, lady · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: figure
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figure, lady), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stepmother | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepmother | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 stepmother | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 beat | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 beat | aux |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stepmother | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obj |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 14 you | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepmother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | figure | for your stepmother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | may | lady | figure | instead you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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