The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 206

I have got a new mother, who is better than the old one; and a new father, who is better than you.’

Who acts: I, new mother, new father · What happens: get, be · To what, where: new mother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, new mother, new father), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 better	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 better	cop
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 mother	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 father	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 father	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 father	det
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 father	amod
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 better	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 better	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 father	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 better	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	I	a new mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
2	is	present	a new mother		than the old one; good property	tree rules
3	is	present	a new father		than you; good property	tree rules

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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