The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 88
Maybe he will repent and come back.”
Who acts: man · What happens: repent, come back
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 (man), 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 4 repent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 repent | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 repent | aux |
| 4 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 repent | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repent | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 repent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repent | future | man | maybe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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