The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 1

“In four days from now you will be weeping instead of laughing, because there will be hundreds of miles between you and me.”

Who acts: four days · What happens: weep, laugh, be · To what, where: hundreds

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four days), 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	_	10 weeping	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weeping	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 now	case
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 days	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 weeping	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 weeping	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 weeping	aux
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 laughing	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 weeping	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hundreds	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 be	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 be	expl
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 hundreds	cop
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weeping	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 miles	case
21	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hundreds	nmod
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 miles	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 me	cc
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 you	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 weeping	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep in a quote	future · progressive	four days			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh in a quote	gerund	four days not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		hundreds	of miles between you	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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