The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 131
“I shall dive for it, and break it off the rock,” said Kabo, “and then you must help me to drag it up into the canoe.”
Who acts: Kabo, you · What happens: dive, break, say, help, drag up · To what, where: fish, Kabo, canoe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kabo, 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 | _ | 4 dive | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dive | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dive | aux |
| 4 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dive | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 break | cc |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dive | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 break | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dive | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dive | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 help | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 help | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 drag | mark |
| 27 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 help | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drag | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 drag | compound:prt |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 canoe | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 canoe | det |
| 32 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drag | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive in a quote | shall | Kabo | for fish | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | infinitive | Kabo not said here | fish | off the rock | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient off rock=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kabo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help in a quote | must | you | Kabo | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 5 | drag up in a quote | to-infinitive | Kabo not said here | fish | the canoe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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