The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 98
Should my brother build you a ship, then let me embark in it.
Who acts: brother, me · What happens: build, let, embark · To what, where: ship, you, me
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, me), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | aux |
| 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 build | nsubj |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 build | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | embark | embark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embark | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | should | my brother | a ship | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary ship=Product | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | my brother not said here | me | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | embark | infinitive | me not said here | ship | 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 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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