The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 69
“The wall is the proper husband for your daughter,” answered the wind, whose home consisted of a cave, which he only visited when he was not rushing about elsewhere; “you can see for yourself that he is greater than I, for he has power to stop me in my flight.”
Who acts: wall, proper husband, Husband, you, power · What happens: be, answer, consist, visit, not rush, see · To what, where: proper husband, wind, cave, power, flight · 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 (wall, proper husband, Husband, 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 | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 husband | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 husband | det |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 husband | amod |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 consisted | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 consisted | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 consisted | advmod |
| 19 | consisted | consist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wind | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cave | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cave | det |
| 22 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consisted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 visited | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 visited | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 visited | nsubj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 visited | advmod |
| 27 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cave | acl:relcl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 rushing | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rushing | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 rushing | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 rushing | advmod |
| 32 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 visited | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 elsewhere | case |
| 34 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 32 rushing | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 see | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | aux |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 yourself | case |
| 41 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 see | obl |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 greater | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 greater | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 greater | cop |
| 45 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 see | advcl |
| 46 | than | than | ADP | _ | 47 I | case |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 greater | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 has | punct |
| 49 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 51 has | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 has | nsubj |
| 51 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | conj |
| 52 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 has | obj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 stop | mark |
| 54 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 has | xcomp |
| 55 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 stop | obj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 flight | case |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 flight | nmod:poss |
| 58 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 stop | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the wall | the proper husband | for your daughter | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the proper husband | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consist | participle | of a cave; home property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | visit | past | Husband | a cave | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | not rush | past · progressive | Husband | elsewhere property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | can | you | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | Husband | than the proper husband = husband; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present | Husband | power | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | stop in a quote | to-infinitive | power not said here | the proper husband = husband | my flight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=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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