The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 82
“Because she has eaten what she ought not to have eaten.
Who acts: use · What happens: eat, not eat
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 (use), 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 | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eaten | nsubj |
| 8 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eaten | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 eaten | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eaten | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eaten | aux |
| 12 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | present · perfect | use | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | ought · perfect | use | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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