The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs.

Who acts: You, troubles, fellows, Central Australia · What happens: see, begin, trouble, race · To what, where: photographs, Northern Races

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, troubles, fellows, Central Australia), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	photographs	photograph	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 fellows	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 fellows	nsubj
7	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellows	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellows	amod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellows	amod
10	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 photographs	nmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 begin	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 troubles	nmod:poss
13	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 begin	nsubj
14	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Races	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 Races	case
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Races	punct
18	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Races	amod
19	Races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 begin	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Australia	case
21	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Australia	flat
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Races	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 Messrs	case
26	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 begin	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	may	You	photographs of merry little black fellows			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photograph=Stimulus
2	begin	present	fellows's troubles		Northern Races of Central Australia	by Messrs	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	trouble		fellows = fellow				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	race in a quote		Central Australia				nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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