The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 56
Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!
Who acts: you, father · What happens: bring, reject, cast out · To what, where: Dilah, me
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, father), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obl |
| 4 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dilah | punct |
| 6 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dilah | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dilah | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dilah | punct |
| 11 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dilah | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cast | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cast | obj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cast | nsubj |
| 16 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | appos |
| 17 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Dilah | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cast | compound:prt |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | Dilah and Dilah and Dilah | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dilah=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | reject | participle | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cast out | past | Thakane's father | Dilah and Dilah and Dilah | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Product |
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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