The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 63
I should certainly be more comfortable if my back was washed.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, wash · To what, where: back
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), 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 | 6 comfortable | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 comfortable | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 comfortable | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 comfortable | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 comfortable | advmod |
| 6 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 washed | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 washed | aux:pass |
| 11 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 comfortable | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comfortable | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | certainly, comfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wash a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | my back | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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