The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 9
“When you wish to dust your own jacket or those of your friends,” he said, “you have only got to say, ‘Flack, flick, switch, be quick,’ and you will see what happens.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: wish, dust, say, get, flick, switch · To what, where: own jacket, Flack · 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, 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 | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wish | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dust | mark |
| 6 | dust | dust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jacket | amod |
| 9 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dust | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 those | cc |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 jacket | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 those | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 got | advmod |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 got | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Flack | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Flack | punct |
| 29 | Flack | flack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 say | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flick | punct |
| 31 | flick | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 say | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 switch | punct |
| 33 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 flick | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 quick | punct |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 quick | cop |
| 36 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 flick | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flick | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 see | cc |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 see | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | aux |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 happens | nsubj |
| 44 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dust not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your own jacket those | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Flack | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | flick in a quote | infinitive | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | switch in a quote | infinitive | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | see in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | happen in a quote | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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