The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 25
In three days he will bring you back here, with your parents and sisters, and any guests you may invite, in your company.
Who acts: brother, guests · What happens: bring back, invite · To what, where: you, company
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, guests), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bring | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 parents | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 parents | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sisters | cc |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 parents | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 invite | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 invite | cc |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 guests | det |
| 19 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 invite | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 invite | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 invite | aux |
| 22 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bring | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 company | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 company | nmod:poss |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 invite | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | future | brother | you | here | day | with your parents and sisters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |
| 2 | invite | may | any guests | your company | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: 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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