The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 64
“Next will come the big Red Ant—you know him?”
Who acts: Next, you · What happens: come, know · To what, where: big Red Ant, Ant
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 (Next, 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ant | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ant | amod |
| 7 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ant | flat |
| 8 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | Next | the big Red Ant | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | Ant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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