The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 6
“They are your Hábogi’s,” replied he, “and the one which you think the most beautiful of all you shall have for yourself, and learn to ride him.”
Who acts: horses, Hábogi, you · What happens: be, reply, think, have, learn, ride · To what, where: one, Hábogi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horses, Hábogi, 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Hábogi | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hábogi | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Hábogi | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hábogi | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hábogi | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hábogi | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | 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 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 “ | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 “ | conj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 think | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beautiful | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 think | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 beautiful | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 all | acl:relcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 yourself | case |
| 28 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 have | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 learn | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 learn | cc |
| 31 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 ride | mark |
| 33 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 learn | xcomp |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ride | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | horses = horse | 's your Hábogi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | your Hábogi | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | the one | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | for yourself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | learn in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | ride in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Hábogi | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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