The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 140
Now you are a woman, and I have no right to keep you here.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, have, keep · To what, where: woman, right, you
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 (you, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 woman | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 right | det |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 right | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 keep | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a woman | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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