The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 43
For he would be sure to know.”
Who acts: Koane · What happens: be, know
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 (Koane), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 sure | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Koane | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Koane not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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