The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 81
“At the top of the tree you will find two cocoa-nuts.
Who acts: you · What happens: find · To what, where: two cocoa nuts, top
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 find | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 nuts | nummod |
| 12 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nuts | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cocoa | punct |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | future | you | two cocoa nuts | the top of the tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at top=Asset |
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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