The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 110
Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed with Cufic characters.
Who acts: you, column · What happens: come, be, inscribe · To what, where: column, marble slab
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 (you, column), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 column | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 column | det |
| 7 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 slab | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slab | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 slab | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 slab | det |
| 12 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slab | amod |
| 13 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 column | nmod |
| 14 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slab | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 characters | case |
| 16 | Cufic | Cufic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 characters | compound |
| 17 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inscribed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | you | a column | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to column=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | a column | a marble slab | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inscribe | participle | a marble slab not said here | with Cufic characters | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with character=Theme |
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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