The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 99
“After all, the most foolish thing in the world one can do is to keep the boy here in exactly the place in which the mermaid will seek him.
Who acts: mermaid · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: place, Boy
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 (mermaid), 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 | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 do | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 foolish | advmod |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | compound |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | nmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 keep | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 22 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 24 place | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 seek | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mermaid | det |
| 28 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seek | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 seek | aux |
| 30 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seek | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive · do-support | the place; here | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | future | the mermaid | Boy | the place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in which=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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