The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 109
“Well, then,” said his Majesty, “this is what I want you to do: In the north-east part of my kingdom there dwells a giant, who has an iron staff twenty yards long, and he is so quick in using it, that even fifty knights have no chance against him.
Who acts: Majesty, this, you, east part, part, fifty knights · What happens: say, be, want, do, dwell, have · To what, where: you, iron staff, staff, chance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Majesty, this, you, east part), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Well | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 what | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 want | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 part | punct |
| 21 | In | in | ADP | _ | 26 part | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 23 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 east | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 north | punct |
| 25 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 part | amod |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwells | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 kingdom | advmod |
| 31 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 giant | det |
| 33 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dwells | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 has | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 has | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 giant | parataxis |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 staff | det |
| 38 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 staff | compound |
| 39 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 has | obj |
| 40 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 yards | nummod |
| 41 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 long | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 staff | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 quick | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 quick | cc |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 quick | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 quick | cop |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 quick | advmod |
| 48 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dwells | parataxis |
| 49 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 50 using | mark |
| 50 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 quick | advcl |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 using | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 have | punct |
| 53 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 have | mark |
| 54 | even | even | ADV | _ | 55 fifty | advmod |
| 55 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 knights | nummod |
| 56 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 have | nsubj |
| 57 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 dwells | conj |
| 58 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 59 chance | det |
| 59 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 have | obj |
| 60 | against | against | ADP | _ | 61 him | case |
| 61 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 chance | nmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king's Majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | king's Majesty = majesty | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dwell in a quote | present | the east part of my kingdom | giant property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | a iron staff | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | part | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | use in a quote | gerund | part not said here | staff | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 9 | have in a quote | present | fifty knights | no chance | against king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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