The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 20
Where am I to seek these mares that I am to bring you?’
Who acts: I · What happens: seek, bring · To what, where: mares
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 seek | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seek | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seek | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 seek | mark |
| 5 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 mares | det |
| 7 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seek | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bring | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mares | acl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 seek | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | I | this mares | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | I | this mares | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme you=Destination |
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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