The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 78
If, therefore, you want a son-in-law who is greater than the whole world, seek him among the rats.”
Who acts: you, son · What happens: want, be, seek · To what, where: son, rats
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 (you, son), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 therefore | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 want | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 greater | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 greater | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 greater | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 greater | cop |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 want | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 greater | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seek | punct |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seek | obj |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 rats | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rats | det |
| 25 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seek | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | present | a son | than the whole world; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | son | the rats | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among rat=Location |
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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