The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 62
If one is fighting, you know, one cannot stop to pick one’s way.
Who acts: one, you · What happens: fight, know, not stop, pick · To what, where: one way
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 (one, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fighting | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighting | aux |
| 4 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 know | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighting | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stop | advmod |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pick | mark |
| 14 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 way | nummod |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 one | case |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pick | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | one | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not stop | can | one | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pick | to-infinitive | one not said here | one way | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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