The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 27

“And, if you are too deaf and too stupid to understand what that means, I have got something which may help to teach you.”

Who acts: you, that, man · What happens: be, understand, mean, get, help, teach · To what, where: something, you · 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, that, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 And	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 deaf	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 deaf	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deaf	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 deaf	advmod
8	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 got	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stupid	cc
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 stupid	advmod
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deaf	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 understand	mark
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stupid	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 means	obj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deaf	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 got	aux
20	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 got	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 help	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 something	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 teach	mark
26	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 help	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 teach	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			deaf property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		you not said here				tree rules
3	understand in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	mean in a quote	present	that				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	get in a quote	present · perfect	the man = man	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
6	help in a quote	may					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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