The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 85

My waiting-maid, who teaches Kisika all sorts of fine handiwork, shall teach you too.’

Who acts: waiting maid · What happens: teach, sort · To what, where: sorts, Kisika, you, fine handiwork

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 (waiting maid), 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	4 maid	nmod:poss
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 teach	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 teaches	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 teaches	nsubj
7	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 maid	acl:relcl
8	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teaches	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sorts	det
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 teaches	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 handiwork	case
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 handiwork	amod
13	handiwork	handiwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sorts	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 maid	punct
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 teach	aux
16	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 teach	iobj
18	too	too	ADV	_	16 teach	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 teach	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	My waiting maid	all sorts of fine handiwork	Kisika	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kisika=Recipient sort=Topic
2	teach speech: other	shall	My waiting maid		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	sort			fine handiwork		nom sort «cognition 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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