The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 65
Perhaps, who knows, it might be the voice of the dreaded Yara herself, who sought young men on the eve of their marriage as her prey.
Who acts: voice, beings · What happens: know, be, dread, seek, marry · To what, where: voice, young men, eve
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 (voice, beings), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 knows | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 voice | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 voice | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Yara | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Yara | det |
| 13 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Yara | amod |
| 14 | Yara | Yara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Yara | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sought | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 voice | conj |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sought | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 eve | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eve | det |
| 23 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 marriage | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eve | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 prey | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 prey | nmod:poss |
| 29 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | might | voice | the voice | of the dreaded Yara | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dread | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | seek | past | the voice | young men | the eve of beings's marriage | as creature's prey | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme on eve=Location | ||
| 5 | marry | beings = being | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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