The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 42

My father is still alive, but I am nothing to him, and my stepmother beats me all the day long.

Who acts: father, I, stepmother · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: nothing, guest, me

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 (father, I, stepmother), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alive	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 alive	advmod
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 nothing	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 alive	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beats	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beats	cc
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stepmother	nmod:poss
16	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beats	nsubj
17	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 beats	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 long	obl:unmarked
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 beats	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My father			still	alive property	tree rules
2	is a	present	I	nothing	guest			tree rules
3	beat	present	my stepmother	me			long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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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