The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 109
You will have to take it to pieces and fit them together properly, and I hope I shall not have to complain again.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, take, fit, hope, not have, complain · To what, where: apple, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fit | cc |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fit | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 fit | advmod |
| 13 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 10 fit | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hope | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hope | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hope | nsubj |
| 17 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hope | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 complain | mark |
| 23 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 complain | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | You not said here | apple | pieces | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination | |||
| 3 | fit | present | You not said here | pieces = piece | properly, together property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | again | vn complain-37.8 «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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