The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 61

‘I come on behalf of the Princess Turritella.’

Who acts: I · What happens: come · To what, where: behalf

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 behalf	case
5	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Turritella	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Turritella	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Turritella	compound
9	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 behalf	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	I			behalf of the Princess Turritella			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on behalf=Location

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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