The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 66
Then I shall have them in my power, and be able to revenge myself.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: hunters, power
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 (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 power | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 revenge | mark |
| 14 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | conj |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 revenge | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | hunters = hunter | my power | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | infinitive | able 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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