The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 121
My purpose lies in the land of Qaf and my road is full of peril.
Who acts: purpose, road, My · What happens: lie, be, purpose · To what, where: land
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 (purpose, road, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Qaf | case |
| 8 | Qaf | Qaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 land | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 full | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 road | nmod:poss |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 peril | case |
| 15 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | My purpose | the land of Qaf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my road | of peril; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | purpose | My | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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