The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 24
“I can kill people, and destroy trees and mountains, but I have no power over men.”
Who acts: brothers · What happens: kill, destroy, have · To what, where: people, trees, power
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroy | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 destroy | cc |
| 8 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kill | conj |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 destroy | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mountains | cc |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trees | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 power | det |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | can | brothers = brother | people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | trees and mountains | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | brothers = brother | no power | over men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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