The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 43
“To the miller’s wedding; I am rather late already, for the wreath took such a long time to make, so I can’t stop.”
Who acts: cow, wreath, miller · What happens: be, take, make, not stop, wed
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 (cow, wreath, miller), 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 | _ | 6 wedding | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 wedding | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 miller | case |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 late | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 late | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 late | cop |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 late | advmod |
| 11 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 wedding | advmod |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 late | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 took | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wreath | det |
| 16 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 late | conj |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 time | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stop | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 stop | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 stop | nsubj |
| 27 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 stop | aux |
| 28 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 stop | advmod |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wedding | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wedding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | cow | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | the wreath | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the wreath not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | not stop in a quote | can | cow | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | wed in a quote | the miller | nom wedding «event 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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