The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 38

But that will never be YOU,” he added, turning to Father Grumbler.

Who acts: that, YOU · What happens: not be, add, turn · To what, where: YOU, Father

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 (that, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 added	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 YOU	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 YOU	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 YOU	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 YOU	cop
6	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 added	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 YOU	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 YOU	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 added	nsubj
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turning	punct
12	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 added	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Father	case
14	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 turning	obj
15	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Father	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	future	that	YOU	tree rules
2	add speech: assert in a quote	past	YOU		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn in a quote	gerund	YOU not said here	Father	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme father=Result

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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