The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 91
“We had much better ride back and take the lower road.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, ride back, take · To what, where: lower road
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 (We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 ride | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ride | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 11 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 road | amod |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | We | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride back in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | the lower road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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