The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 54
How did you come to make your dwelling in this wilderness?”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, make · To what, where: dwelling, wilderness
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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wilderness | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wilderness | det |
| 11 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | your dwelling | this wilderness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dwelling=Product |
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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