The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 18
That cannot be true, of course, but it might be well to give this impostor a lesson.
Who acts: That, course · What happens: not be, be, give · To what, where: impostor
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 (That, course), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 true | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 true | obl |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 of | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 well | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 well | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 well | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 well | cop |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 true | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 well | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 impostor | det |
| 18 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lesson | det |
| 20 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | might | course | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | course not said here | this impostor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent impostor=Recipient lesson=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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