The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 28
What the Rose did to the Cypress[1]
Who acts: Rose · What happens: do
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), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rose | det |
| 3 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Cypress | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cypress | det |
| 7 | Cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Cypress | flat |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cypress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Rose | to the Cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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