The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 37
I will not leave the girl to-day, but will take her back with me”; and sinking beneath the surface, she drew the girl after her.
Who acts: I, old woman, woman · What happens: not leave, take, sink, draw · To what, where: girl, back · 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 (I, old woman, woman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obl |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sinking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sinking | cc |
| 21 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 leave | advcl |
| 22 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 24 surface | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 surface | det |
| 24 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sinking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drew | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drew | nsubj |
| 27 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drew | obj |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drew | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | future | I | the girl | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | future | girl's back | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink in a quote | gerund | the old woman = woman not said here | beneath the surface | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw in a quote | past | woman | the girl | after girl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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