The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 55
“I am invited to the wedding,” answered the reindeer, “and the miller has begged me on no account to fail him.”
Who acts: reindeer · What happens: invite, be, beg, fail · To what, where: boy, reindeer, miller, account · 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 (reindeer), 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 | _ | 4 invited | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | aux:pass |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reindeer | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reindeer | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reindeer | det |
| 12 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 begged | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 begged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 begged | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 miller | det |
| 17 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 begged | aux |
| 19 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reindeer | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 begged | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 account | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 account | det |
| 23 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begged | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fail | mark |
| 25 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 begged | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fail | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 reindeer | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reindeer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite in a quote | present · passive | the boy = boy | to the wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the reindeer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the reindeer not said here | the miller | the boy = boy | no account | tree rules | ||
| 4 | fail in a quote | to-infinitive | the reindeer not said here | reindeer | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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