The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 20
“Let us change clothes,” he said, “and I will do the fighting, while you shall get the glory.
Who acts: us, face, you · What happens: let, change, say, do, get · To what, where: us, clothes, fighting, glory · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, face, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fighting | det |
| 17 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glory | det |
| 24 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | face | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | face | the fighting | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fighting=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | shall | you | the glory | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glory=Stimulus |
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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