The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 143
We shall stay at home, and weep for Pivi!”
Who acts: We · What happens: stay, weep · To what, where: home
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), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weep | cc |
| 8 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Pivi | case |
| 10 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 weep | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | We | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | weep | infinitive | We not said here | for Pivi | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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