The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 68
“Well, it is lucky for you that there are a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world,” replied her father, “so that you can take your choice!
Who acts: name, great many Sigmunds, father, you · What happens: be, reply, take · To what, where: choice · 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 (name, great many Sigmunds, father, 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 | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 lucky | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lucky | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lucky | cop |
| 6 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 lucky | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 are | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lucky | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Sigmunds | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sigmunds | amod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sigmunds | amod |
| 15 | Sigmunds | sigmund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 part | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sigmunds | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 24 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 replied | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 take | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 take | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | aux |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 replied | advcl |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 choice | nmod:poss |
| 35 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | name | for you; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | a great many Sigmunds in this part of the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: express | past | Sigmund's father | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | can | you | your choice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=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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