The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 61
It is the Black Ant who will come and creep from your feet up to your head.
Who acts: noise, Black Ant · What happens: be, come, creep up · To what, where: Black Ant, feet
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 (noise, Black Ant), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Ant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ant | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ant | det |
| 4 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Ant | amod |
| 5 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Ant | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 creep | cc |
| 10 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 creep | obl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 creep | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creep | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | noise | the Black Ant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | future | the Black Ant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | creep up | infinitive | the Black Ant not said here | your feet | to your head | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to head=Destination |
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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