The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 45
“If he does not catch a fish he may find something else,” she said to herself.
Who acts: Hare, thaw · What happens: not catch, find, say · To what, where: fish, something, thaw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, thaw), 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 | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 catch | advmod |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 find | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 something | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 herself | case |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | Hare | a fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | may | Hare | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | thaw | thaw | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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