The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 86
“You are no good at all,” cried the wolverine crossly, for it was suffering great pain, “and if you cannot get me free, I shall see what my friends the lightning and thunder can do.”
Who acts: You, wolverine, course, cattle, friends · What happens: be, cry, suffer, not get, see, do · To what, where: all, great pain, cattle · 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, wolverine, course, cattle), 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 | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolverine | det |
| 12 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 suffering | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 suffering | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 suffering | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 suffering | aux |
| 18 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | conj |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pain | amod |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suffering | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 see | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 get | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 see | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 get | obj |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 get | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 suffering | parataxis |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 do | obj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 friends | nmod:poss |
| 37 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 do | nsubj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 lightning | det |
| 39 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 do | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thunder | cc |
| 41 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lightning | conj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 do | aux |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 see | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | all | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the wolverine | crossly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suffer | past · progressive | course | great pain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | cattle | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | shall | cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | can | my friends | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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