The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 116
“You were quite right not to go to the forest, and to await Fortune in your bed; she has come at last!
Who acts: You, treasure · What happens: be, not go, await, come · To what, where: forest, Fortune, bed, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, treasure), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 await | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 await | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 await | mark |
| 15 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 16 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 await | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 await | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 right | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | await in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | Fortune | your bed | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | treasure | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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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