The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 18
Who can be got to stand godfather to such a little beggar boy?’
What happens: get, stand · To what, where: godfather
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | aux:pass |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | godfather | godfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 boy | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 12 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | compound |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | godfather | to such little beggar boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer godfather=Stimulus |
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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