The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 76
“It is quite true,” he said, “that I can stop the wind who can part the clouds who can cover the sun; but there is someone who can do more than all these, and that is the rat.
Who acts: claim, wall, wind, clouds, that · What happens: be, say, stop, part, cover, do · To what, where: wind, clouds, sun, more, rat · 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 (claim, wall, wind, clouds), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 rat | csubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stop | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 part | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 part | aux |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wind | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clouds | det |
| 22 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 part | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 cover | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 cover | aux |
| 25 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cover | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 is | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 is | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 is | expl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 rat | cop |
| 32 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 is | nsubj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 do | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 someone | acl:relcl |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 these | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 these | det:predet |
| 39 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 more | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rat | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 rat | cc |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 rat | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 rat | cop |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 rat | det |
| 45 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 rat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | claim | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | can | wall | the wind and part | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wind=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | part in a quote | can | the wind and part | the clouds | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cover in a quote | can | the clouds | the sun | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | can | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | that | the rat | tree rules |
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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