The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 81
When I have this woman in my power and have avenged my brothers, I will make you my solace.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: avenge, make, solace · To what, where: brothers, solace, you
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 (I, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 have | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 avenged | aux |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 power | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 avenged | cc |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 avenged | aux |
| 11 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 avenged | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 avenged | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 solace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 avenged | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 avenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avenge | present · perfect | my brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | future | I | my solace | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary solace=Product | |||
| 3 | solace | my | nom solace «feeling transitive»: 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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