The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 89

“If you are certain that they would be so wicked—but perhaps you are jealous because nobody has invited you?”

Who acts: you, bears · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: nobody

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, bears), 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	_	5 certain	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 certain	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 certain	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 certain	cop
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 wicked	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wicked	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wicked	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wicked	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 wicked	advmod
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 certain	advcl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 jealous	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 jealous	cc
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 jealous	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 jealous	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 jealous	cop
17	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 certain	parataxis
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 invited	mark
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 invited	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 invited	aux
21	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 jealous	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 invited	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 jealous	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you		certain property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	would	bears = bear		wicked property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	you		jealous, perhaps property	tree rules
4	invite in a quote	present · perfect · passive		nobody		tree rules

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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