The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 12
Then she called her daughter and told her that very soon she would be alone in the world; that she must take care of herself, as there would be no one to take care of her.
Who acts: girl, that · What happens: call, tell, be, take · To what, where: daughter, girl, world, care, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 alone | mark |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 alone | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alone | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 alone | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 alone | cop |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 told | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alone | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 take | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 be | mark |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 be | expl |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 be | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 one | cop |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 take | advcl |
| 36 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | girl | girl's daughter | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | girl not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | would | girl | the world | alone, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | must | that | care | of girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of herself=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | that not said here | care | of girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial_Location |
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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