The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 68
“It is something that has to do with our future happiness.”
Who acts: body · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: something
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 (body), 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 | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 has | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 happiness | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 happiness | amod |
| 12 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | body | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with our future happiness | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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