The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 110

The bravest and strongest young men of my court have fallen under the blows of that staff; but, as you overcame the twelve robbers so easily, I feel that I have reason to hope that you may be able to conquer the giant.

Who acts: bravest young men, you, I, staff · What happens: fall, overcome, feel, have, hope, be · To what, where: blows, twelve robbers, reason, giant · 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 (bravest young men, you, I, staff), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
2	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 men	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 strongest	cc
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bravest	conj
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fallen	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 court	nmod:poss
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	aux
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 blows	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 blows	det
14	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fallen	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 staff	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 staff	det
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blows	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 overcame	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 overcame	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 overcame	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 overcame	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 overcame	nsubj
23	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 robbers	det
25	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 robbers	nummod
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 overcame	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 easily	advmod
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	23 overcame	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 feel	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 feel	nsubj
31	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fallen	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 feel	ccomp
35	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hope	mark
37	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 reason	acl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 able	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 able	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 able	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	cop
42	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hope	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 conquer	mark
44	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 able	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 giant	det
46	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 conquer	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	present · perfect	the bravest young men of my court		the blows of that staff		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under blow=Location
2	overcome	past	you	the twelve robbers		easily property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot robber=Theme
3	feel	present	I				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	present	I	reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
5	hope	to-infinitive	I not said here	reason not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is	may	you			able property	tree rules
7	conquer	to-infinitive	you not said here	the giant			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
8	blow		that staff				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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