The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 60
I could rub your shell for you till it was bright and shining again.
Who acts: I, shell · What happens: rub, be, shine · To what, where: shell
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 (I, shell), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rub | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rub | aux |
| 3 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rub | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rub | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 bright | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bright | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bright | cop |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rub | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shining | cc |
| 13 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bright | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 shining | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | could | I | your shell | for you | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | shell | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | shell not said here | again | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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