The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 15

“What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is a story from Persia, where the people, of course, are civilised, and much like those of whom you read in “The Arabian Nights.”

Who acts: Rose, you · What happens: do, be, civilise, read · To what, where: story, Persia, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rose, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rose	det
4	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 story	csubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Cypress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cypress	det
8	Cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 story	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Persia	case
15	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 story	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 civilised	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 civilised	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 civilised	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 civilised	punct
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 civilised	mark
22	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 of	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 of	punct
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 civilised	aux:pass
25	civilised	civilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 story	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 those	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 those	cc
28	much	much	ADV	_	30 those	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 those	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 civilised	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 whom	case
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 those	nmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 read	nsubj
34	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 whom	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 Nights	case
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 Nights	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Nights	det
38	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Nights	amod
39	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 read	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	the Rose	a story			to the Cypress	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is a	present		a story	Persia			tree rules
3	civilise	present · passive		the people				tree rules
4	read	present	you			night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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