The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 94
And, besides, it is a grand opportunity to show what we are made of.
Who acts: face · What happens: be, show, make · To what, where: grand opportunity, we
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 (face), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opportunity | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opportunity | punct |
| 3 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 9 opportunity | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 besides | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opportunity | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 opportunity | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 opportunity | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 opportunity | amod |
| 9 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 opportunity | acl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 show | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 opportunity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | face | a grand opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a grand opportunity | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | we | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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