The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 80
Make me a copy of her, which we can send to her native village instead of herself.’
Who acts: you · What happens: make, send, copy · To what, where: copy, me, native village, lady
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), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 copy | det |
| 4 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 copy | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 send | nsubj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 send | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 village | nmod:poss |
| 14 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 send | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 herself | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 send | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a copy of lady | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary copy=Product | |||
| 2 | send | can | lady's native village | instead lady | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to village=Destination | ||||
| 3 | copy | lady | nom copy «communication 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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