The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 89

When my brother has built the pillar I can mount it, and from the top, far above the clouds, I can see what is happening: in every country under the sun.”

Who acts: I · What happens: build, mount, see, happen · To what, where: brother, pillar, top, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 built	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pillar	det
7	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 mount	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mount	aux
10	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pillar	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mount	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 top	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clouds	punct
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 clouds	advmod
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 clouds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clouds	det
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 top	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 top	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	parataxis
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happening	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 happening	aux
28	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 see	ccomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 country	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 country	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 country	det
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 happening	obl
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 sun.	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun.	det
35	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 happening	obl
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present · perfect · passive		my brother			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pillar=Product
2	mount	can	I	pillar			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	see	can	I		the top and the clouds		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	present · progressive			every country	under the sun.	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=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 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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