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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

punctdiscoursepunctadvmodpunctpunctnmod:possobjpunctpunctnsubjcopccompnsubjacl:relclobjmarkxcomppunctcasedetcompoundpunctamodnsubjcasenmod:possnmodadvmodparataxisdetxcomppunctnsubjparataxisdetcompoundobjnummodobl:unmarkedamodpunctccnsubjcopadvmodparataxismarkadvclobjpunctmarkadvmodnummodnsubjconjdetobjcasenmodpunctroot“PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTthenADV,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBhisPRONMajestyPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTthisPRONisAUXwhatPRONIPRONwantVERByouPRONtoPARTdoVERB:PUNCTInADPtheDETnorthNOUN-PUNCTeastADJpartNOUNofADPmyPRONkingdomNOUNthereADVdwellsVERBaDETgiantADJ,PUNCTwhoPRONhasVERBanDETironNOUNstaffNOUNtwentyNUMyardsNOUNlongADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONisAUXsoADVquickADJinSCONJusingVERBitPRON,PUNCTthatSCONJevenADVfiftyNUMknightsNOUNhaveVERBnoDETchanceNOUNagainstADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 saidpunct
2WellwellINTJ_7 saiddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
4thenthenADVPronType=Dem2 Welladvmod
5,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
6”"PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 Majestynmod:poss
9MajestyMajestyPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidobj
10,,PUNCT_14 whatpunct
11“"PUNCT_14 whatpunct
12thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 whatnsubj
13isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 whatcop
14whatwhatPRONPronType=Int7 saidccomp
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 wantnsubj
16wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 whatacl:relcl
17youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs16 wantobj
18totoPART_19 domark
19dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf16 wantxcomp
20::PUNCT_26 partpunct
21IninADP_26 partcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 partdet
23northnorthNOUNNumber=Sing25 eastcompound
24--PUNCT_23 northpunct
25easteastADJDegree=Pos26 partamod
26partpartNOUNNumber=Sing31 dwellsnsubj
27ofofADP_29 kingdomcase
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 kingdomnmod:poss
29kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing26 partnmod
30therethereADVPronType=Dem29 kingdomadvmod
31dwellsdwellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 saidparataxis
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 giantdet
33giantgiantADJDegree=Pos31 dwellsxcomp
34,,PUNCT_36 haspunct
35whowhoPRONPronType=Rel36 hasnsubj
36hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 giantparataxis
37anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 staffdet
38ironironNOUNNumber=Sing39 staffcompound
39staffstaffNOUNNumber=Sing36 hasobj
40twentytwentyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card41 yardsnummod
41yardsyardNOUNNumber=Plur42 longobl:unmarked
42longlongADJDegree=Pos39 staffamod
43,,PUNCT_48 quickpunct
44andandCCONJ_48 quickcc
45hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 quicknsubj
46isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin48 quickcop
47sosoADV_48 quickadvmod
48quickquickADJDegree=Pos31 dwellsparataxis
49ininSCONJ_50 usingmark
50usinguseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part48 quickadvcl
51ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs50 usingobj
52,,PUNCT_57 havepunct
53thatthatSCONJ_57 havemark
54evenevenADV_55 fiftyadvmod
55fiftyfiftyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card56 knightsnummod
56knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur57 havensubj
57havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 dwellsconj
58nonoDETPronType=Neg59 chancedet
59chancechanceNOUNNumber=Sing57 haveobj
60againstagainstADP_61 himcase
61himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs59 chancenmod
62..PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastking's Majestyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2is a in a quotepresentthistree rules
3want in a quotepresentking's Majesty = majestyyoutree rules
4do not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitiveyou not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5dwell in a quotepresentthe east part of my kingdomgiant propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6have in a quotepresenta iron staffvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
7is in a quotepresentpartquick propertytree rules
8use in a quotegerundpart not said herestaffvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9have in a quotepresentfifty knightsno chanceagainst kingvn 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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