The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 46
They will just have to stay all day in the hut, and you know that they will starve.”
Who acts: father, you · What happens: have, stay, know, starve · To what, where: hut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 starve | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 starve | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 starve | aux |
| 19 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | father not said here | the hut | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | starve | future | father | 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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