The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 97
“I shall go to war and take some captives, and I shall be away several months.
Who acts: camp · What happens: go, take, be · To what, where: war, captives
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 (camp), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 captives | det |
| 10 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 away | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 away | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 away | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 away | cop |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 months | amod |
| 18 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 away | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | shall | camp | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | camp not said here | some captives | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | camp | month | away property | tree rules |
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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