The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 12
And if you will fix a day to meet me here I will bring the baby.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: fix, meet, bring · To what, where: me, baby
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fix | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fix | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fix | aux |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fix | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 meet | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 meet | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 baby | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fix | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | future | you | day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | bring | future | I | the baby | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Theme |
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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