The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 76
She showed him where the sword hung concealed behind a curtain, and he took it down, saying as he did so: “Be sure not to forget what you have promised to do.”
Who acts: princess, plan, you · What happens: show, conceal, take down, say, do, be · To what, where: plan, sword, curtain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, plan, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | iobj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 concealed | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 concealed | aux:pass |
| 8 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 showed | ccomp |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 curtain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 curtain | det |
| 11 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concealed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 took | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 did | advmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
| 26 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | cop |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 forget | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 forget | mark |
| 30 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 promised | obj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 promised | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 promised | aux |
| 34 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 forget | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 promised | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 forget | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | princess | plan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past · passive | the sword | a curtain | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind curtain=Location | ||||
| 3 | take down | past | plan | sword | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | plan not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | past | plan | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not forget in a quote | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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