The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 54
It is a good thing you have us with you, to protect you from harm.’
Who acts: chance, you · What happens: be, have, protect · To what, where: good thing, us, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 protect | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 protect | mark |
| 13 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 protect | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 harm | case |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 protect | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | chance | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | us | with you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | you | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from harm=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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