The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 104
“I have an important piece of business to do, and only this journey makes it possible.
Who acts: old man, journey · What happens: have, do, make · To what, where: important piece, piece
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 (old man, journey), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 business | case |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 piece | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 journey | advmod |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the old man = man | a important piece of business | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the old man = man not said here | a important piece of business not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | this journey | piece | possible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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