The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 102
God forbid that your spring also should be ravaged by the autumn winds of martyrdom.”
Who acts: God, autumn winds · What happens: forbid, ravage, wind · To what, where: spring, martyrdom
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 (God, autumn winds), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forbid | nsubj |
| 2 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 ravaged | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ravaged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 ravaged | advmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ravaged | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ravaged | aux:pass |
| 9 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 forbid | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 winds | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 12 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 winds | compound |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ravaged | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 martyrdom | case |
| 15 | martyrdom | martyrdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 winds | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | infinitive | God | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | ravage | should · passive | the autumn winds of martyrdom | your spring | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wind | martyrdom | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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