The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 73
Drive a nail into the threshold, and then I can never pass in or out.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: drive, not pass · To what, where: nail, threshold
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nail | det |
| 3 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drive | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 threshold | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 threshold | det |
| 6 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drive | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pass | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pass | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 pass | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pass | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 pass | advmod |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Drive | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 pass | advmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 out | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 in | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | imperative | you not said here | a nail | the threshold | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme into threshold=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not pass | can | I | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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