The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 84
I will send an abundance of gifts, and a string of camels laden with flashing stones and rubies of Badakhsham In this way I will bring her and her suite, and I will give her to you to be your solace.
Who acts: I · What happens: send, lade, bring, give, be · To what, where: abundance, way, camels, Badakhsham, solace
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 abundance | det |
| 5 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gifts | case |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 abundance | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 string | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 string | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 string | det |
| 11 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 camels | case |
| 13 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 string | nmod |
| 14 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 camels | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stones | case |
| 16 | flashing | flashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stones | compound |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laden | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rubies | cc |
| 19 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stones | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Badakhsham | case |
| 21 | Badakhsham | Badakhsham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rubies | nmod |
| 22 | In | in | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bring | aux |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 suite | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 suite | nmod:poss |
| 31 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 her | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 give | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 give | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 give | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 give | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 solace | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 solace | cop |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 solace | nmod:poss |
| 43 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | a abundance of gifts | this way | a string of camels obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent abundance=Theme in way=Destination | ||
| 2 | lade | participle | camels not said here | with flashing stones and rubies of Badakhsham | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | future | I | this way not said here | Badakhsham | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 4 | give | future | I | Badakhsham | to you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | your solace | tree rules |
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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