The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 20
“I am ready now,” said the wolverine after a bit; “just at first you will find that the berries make your eyes smart, but you must be careful not to move, or the juice will run out, and then it will have to be done all over again.”
Who acts: wolverine, you, berries, juice · What happens: be, say, find, make, not move, run out · To what, where: eyes · 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 (wolverine, you, berries, juice), 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 ready | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ready | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolverine | det |
| 10 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 bit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 find | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 just | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 berries | det |
| 24 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | nsubj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | ccomp |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 careful | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 careful | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 careful | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 careful | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 careful | cop |
| 34 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 find | conj |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 move | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 move | mark |
| 37 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 careful | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 run | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 run | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 juice | det |
| 41 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 run | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 run | aux |
| 43 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 move | parataxis |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 run | compound:prt |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 have | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 have | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 have | advmod |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 have | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 have | aux |
| 50 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 move | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 done | mark |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 done | aux:pass |
| 53 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 have | xcomp |
| 54 | all | all | ADV | _ | 55 over | advmod |
| 55 | over | over | ADV | _ | 53 done | advmod |
| 56 | again | again | ADV | _ | 53 done | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 58 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the wolverine = wolverine | now | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wolverine | after a bit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | the berries | your eyes | smart property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material eye=Product | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | must | you | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not move in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | run out in a quote | future | the juice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have in a quote | future | juice | then | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | juice not said here | again | over property | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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