The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 90
“That is the reason why I implore you never to go there again; at any rate till after we are married.”
Who acts: That, girl · What happens: be, implore, not go, marry · To what, where: reason, you, we
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, girl), 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 | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 implore | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 implore | nsubj |
| 8 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 implore | obj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | parataxis |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rate | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 rate | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rate | det |
| 18 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reason | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 married | mark |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 married | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 married | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | aux:pass |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rate | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the reason and any rate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | implore in a quote | present | the girl = girl | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not go in a quote | to-infinitive | there | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | present · passive | we | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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