The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 36
One more proof I must have; let the two young men now fight against each other.
Who acts: One more proof, two young men · What happens: have, let, fight
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 (One more proof, two young men), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 proof | nummod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 proof | amod |
| 3 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 fight | advmod |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | parataxis |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 fight | obl |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | One more proof | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fight | present | the two young men | now | against each | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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