The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 18
When you have done that I will show you something I have in my bag,” and, as he spoke, he tried to imitate the smile that the Holy Man had given HIM.
Who acts: you, I, cock, Holy Man · What happens: do, show, have, speak, try, imitate · To what, where: something, you, bag, smile, cock · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, cock, Holy 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 show | iobj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 show | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bag | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bag | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tried | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 and | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoke | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tried | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoke | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tried | nsubj |
| 25 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 imitate | mark |
| 27 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tried | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 smile | det |
| 29 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 imitate | obj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 given | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Man | det |
| 32 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 33 Man | compound |
| 33 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 given | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 given | aux |
| 35 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 imitate | advcl |
| 36 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 given | iobj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | future | I | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | present | I | my bag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | cock | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | try in a quote | past | cock | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | imitate not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | cock not said here | the smile | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give in a quote | past · perfect | the Holy Man | cock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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