The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 116
“Oh, we shall do all the same things over again—play at slinging, and, this time, you shall break my leg, Pivi!”
Who acts: we, you · What happens: do, play, sling, break · To what, where: same things, leg
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 (we, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 again | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 play | punct |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 16 slinging | mark |
| 16 | slinging | sling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 play | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 break | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 break | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 break | aux |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 play | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leg | nmod:poss |
| 27 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 break | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Pivi | punct |
| 29 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 leg | appos |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | we | all same things | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sling in a quote | gerund | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break in a quote | shall | you | my leg | time | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient |
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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