The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 116
“I must be off now,” remarked the lion, shaking the boy as he spoke; “but cut off the tip of my ear, and keep it carefully, and if you are in any danger just wish yourself a lion and you will become one on the spot.
Who acts: lion, you · What happens: be, remark, shake, speak, cut off, keep · To what, where: boy, tip, ear, danger, lion, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, 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 | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 off | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 off | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 off | cop |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 remarked | parataxis |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 off | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 off | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 off | punct |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 keep | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 remarked | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaking | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 spoke | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spoke | nsubj |
| 18 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shaking | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cut | cc |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remarked | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 tip | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tip | det |
| 25 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cut | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ear | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ear | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tip | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 keep | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keep | cc |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 keep | obj |
| 33 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 31 keep | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wish | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 wish | cc |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 danger | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 danger | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 danger | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 danger | case |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 danger | det |
| 41 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wish | advcl |
| 42 | just | just | ADV | _ | 43 wish | advmod |
| 43 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 keep | conj |
| 44 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 wish | iobj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 lion | det |
| 46 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wish | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 become | cc |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 become | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 become | aux |
| 50 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 keep | conj |
| 51 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 become | xcomp |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 spot | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 spot | det |
| 54 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 one | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | the lion = lion | now | off property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | the lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the lion not said here | the boy | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | lion | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cut off in a quote | participle | the lion not said here | the tip of my ear | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tip=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ear | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | any danger | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a lion | yourself | tree rules | |||
| 9 | become in a quote | future | you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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