The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 60
“If you hear a little noise you will pretend to be dead.
Who acts: you · What happens: hear, pretend, be · To what, where: little noise
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 (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 | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 hear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pretend | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noise | amod |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pretend | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pretend | aux |
| 10 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dead | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dead | cop |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pretend | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a little noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pretend in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | dead property | tree rules |
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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