The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 77
It is the rat who passes through me, and can reduce me to powder, simply with his teeth.
Who acts: claim, rat · What happens: be, pass, reduce, powder · To what, where: rat, me
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, rat), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 passes | nsubj |
| 6 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rat | acl:relcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 passes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reduce | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reduce | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reduce | aux |
| 12 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 rat | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reduce | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 powder | mark |
| 15 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reduce | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 teeth | punct |
| 17 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 20 teeth | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reduce | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | claim | the rat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | present | the rat | through me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through i=Location | ||||
| 3 | reduce | can | me | with Rat's teeth | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer i=Patient clause=Goal | ||||
| 4 | powder | to-infinitive | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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