The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 27
“I have always read that anyone who can do magic at all can do that.”
Who acts: water, anyone · What happens: read, magic, do · To what, where: all, that · 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 (water, anyone), 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 | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 read | advmod |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 do | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 magic | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 magic | aux |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 magic | aux |
| 11 | magic | magic | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 magic | obl |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 read | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | present · perfect | water | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | magic in a quote | can · do-support | all | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | anyone | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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