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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

punctnsubjcopadvmodcsubjpunctpunctnsubjconjpunctpunctmarknsubjauxccompdetobjnsubjauxconjdetobjnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjpunctccexplcopnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclobjcasedet:predetoblpunctccnsubjcopdetpunctroot“PUNCTItPRONisAUXquiteADVtrueADJ,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTthatSCONJIPRONcanAUXstopVERBtheDETwindNOUNwhoPRONcanAUXpartNOUNtheDETcloudsNOUNwhoPRONcanAUXcoverVERBtheDETsunNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJtherePRONisAUXsomeonePRONwhoPRONcanAUXdoVERBmoreADJthanADPallDETthesePRON,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONisAUXtheDETratNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 truepunct
2ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 truensubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 truecop
4quitequiteADV_5 trueadvmod
5truetrueADJDegree=Pos45 ratcsubj
6,,PUNCT_5 truepunct
7”"PUNCT_5 truepunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 trueconj
10,,PUNCT_15 stoppunct
11“"PUNCT_15 stoppunct
12thatthatSCONJ_15 stopmark
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 stopnsubj
14cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin15 stopaux
15stopstopVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidccomp
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 winddet
17windwindNOUNNumber=Sing15 stopobj
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 partnsubj
19cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin20 partaux
20partpartNOUNNumber=Sing17 windconj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 cloudsdet
22cloudscloudNOUNNumber=Plur20 partobj
23whowhoPRONPronType=Rel25 covernsubj
24cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin25 coveraux
25covercoverVERBVerbForm=Inf22 cloudsacl:relcl
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 sundet
27sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing25 coverobj
28;;PUNCT_31 ispunct
29butbutCCONJ_31 iscc
30theretherePRONPronType=Dem31 isexpl
31isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin45 ratcop
32someonesomeonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind31 isnsubj
33whowhoPRONPronType=Rel35 donsubj
34cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin35 doaux
35dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf32 someoneacl:relcl
36moremoreADJDegree=Cmp35 doobj
37thanthanADP_39 thesecase
38allallDETPronType=Tot39 thesedet:predet
39thesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem36 moreobl
40,,PUNCT_45 ratpunct
41andandCCONJ_45 ratcc
42thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem45 ratnsubj
43isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin45 ratcop
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 ratdet
45ratratNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
46..PUNCT_45 ratpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepresentclaimtrue propertytree rules
2say speech: assertpastwallvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3stop in a quotecanwallthe wind and partvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wind=Eventuality
4part in a quotecanthe wind and partthe cloudstree rules
5cover in a quotecanthe cloudsthe sunvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sun=Destination
6do in a quotecanmorevn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
7is a in a quotepresentthatthe rattree 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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