The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 101
No one can answer er her riddle, and she has done to death many men who had had no pleasure in life nor tasted its charms.
Who acts: one, daughter, many men · What happens: answer, do, have, taste, riddle · To what, where: many men, pleasure, life, charms
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (one, daughter, many men), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | er | er | ADP | _ | 7 riddle | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 done | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | aux |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 men | acl:relcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 pleasure | det |
| 21 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 tasted | cc |
| 25 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 charms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tasted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | can | no one | er daughter's riddle | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | daughter | many men | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have | past | many men | no pleasure | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | |||
| 4 | taste | past | many men not said here | life's charms | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme charm=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | riddle | daughter | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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