The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 96
The maid will show you where you are to sleep.’
Who acts: maid, you · What happens: show, be, sleep · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maid | det |
| 2 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 show | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 where | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sleep | mark |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 where | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | the maid | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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