The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 104
It is not the same Pivi—but there is a kind of likeness.
Who acts: noise, kind · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: same Pivi
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, kind), 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 | 6 Pivi | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Pivi | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Pivi | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Pivi | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Pivi | amod |
| 6 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 is | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Pivi | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 likeness | case |
| 14 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pivi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | noise | the same Pivi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a kind of likeness | the same Pivi not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pivi=Theme |
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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