The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 92

“Surely you could have split the rock without tearing my coat to bits!”

Who acts: you · What happens: split, tear · To what, where: rock, coat

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), 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	_	6 split	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 split	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 split	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 split	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 split	aux
6	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 split	obj
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 tearing	mark
10	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 split	advcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 coat	nmod:poss
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tearing	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 bits	case
14	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tearing	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 split	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 split	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split in a quote	could · perfect	you	the rock				surely property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
2	tear in a quote	gerund	you not said here	my coat				to bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent coat=Patient to bit=Result

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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