The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 89
It is you who gave me back my stud; you who killed the genius, and the old witch his mother; you who brought me the holy water.
Who acts: funeral, you · What happens: be, give back, kill, bring · To what, where: you, stud, me, genius, holy water
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 (funeral, 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 | 3 you | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 you | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stud | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 genius | det |
| 15 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 witch | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 witch | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 witch | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 witch | amod |
| 20 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 witch | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | funeral | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give back | past | you | my stud | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stud=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | you | the genius | the old witch obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring | past | you | the holy water | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=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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