The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 108
If my brother hits any creature I catch it quicker than any dog can.
Who acts: brother, I · What happens: hit, catch · To what, where: creature
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 hits | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hits | nsubj |
| 4 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | advcl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 creature | det |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hits | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 catch | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 quicker | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit a condition, not said to happen | present | my brother | any creature | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | I | creature | quick property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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