The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 9
“Oh, stop one moment, and let me see which I will choose.
Who acts: you, cow · What happens: stop, let, see, choose · To what, where: cow · 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 (you, cow), 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 stop | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 stop | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 moment | nummod |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 choose | aux |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | cow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | cow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | choose in a quote | future | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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