The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 89
“You shall come back again,” said he; “but now you must see the house that you are to live in.”
Who acts: You, need · What happens: come back, say, see, be · To what, where: house · 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 (You, need), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 live | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 live | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 live | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 house | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 live | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back in a quote | shall | You | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | need | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | must | you | the house | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | the house not said here | live property | tree rules |
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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