The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 79
“There are many of them in the forest, and you will soon see that they are stronger than you.”
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: be, see · To what, where: forest
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, brothers), 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 | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 many | cop |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 many | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 many | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 many | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 stronger | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stronger | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stronger | cop |
| 19 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 see | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 stronger | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the forest | of brothers = brother; many property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | you | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | brothers = brother | than you; strong property | tree rules |
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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