The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 103
“What object have you,” the old man asked, “in thus consuming your life?”
Who acts: object, old man · What happens: have, ask, consume · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object, old man), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 consuming | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 consuming | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 consuming | mark |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 consuming | advmod |
| 16 | consuming | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consuming | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 consuming | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | what object | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consume in a quote | gerund | your life | thus property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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