The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 17
You can light the fire with this basket.
Who acts: You · What happens: light · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 light | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 light | aux |
| 3 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 basket | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | can | You | the fire | with this basket | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product with basket=Material |
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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