The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 80
“O lovely girl,” rejoined he, “if I accomplish my purpose, so that I need no longer strive for it, I will keep my compact with you.
Who acts: lovely girl, Dil aram, my · What happens: rejoin, accomplish, need, strive, keep, purpose · To what, where: Heaven, purpose, compact
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 (lovely girl, Dil aram, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 girl | discourse |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoined | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 7 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rejoined | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 accomplish | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 accomplish | nsubj |
| 13 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 keep | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 accomplish | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 need | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 need | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 need | nsubj |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 accomplish | conj |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 strive | advmod |
| 23 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 need | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 strive | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accomplish | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 keep | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 keep | aux |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rejoined | advcl |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 compact | nmod:poss |
| 31 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 keep | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoin | past | lovely girl | Heaven | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accomplish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Dil aram = aram | my purpose | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | Dil aram = aram | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | strive not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Dil aram = aram not said here | for purpose; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | future | Dil aram = aram | my compact | with you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Theme | |||
| 6 | purpose in a quote | 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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