The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 87
You have got the most beautiful skin in the world—just the kind that everyone is wanting, and they will be sure to kill you and strip you of it.”
Who acts: You, everyone, cattle · What happens: get, want, be, kill, strip · To what, where: beautiful skin, world, you
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, everyone, cattle), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skin | amod |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 kind | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kind | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 wanting | mark |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 wanting | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wanting | aux |
| 18 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kind | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sure | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | cop |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 kill | mark |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 strip | cc |
| 29 | strip | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 strip | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 strip | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | You | the beautiful skin | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | present · progressive | everyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | future | cattle | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | cattle not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | strip | present | cattle not said here | you | of kind | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme of it=Initial_Location |
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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