The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 92
I have got a job to do, and I want to know if your husband will lend me your mules, as I see he is not using them, and can lend me a hand himself?”
Who acts: I, husband · What happens: get, do, want, know, lend, see · To what, where: job, mules, me, hand · 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 (I, husband), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 job | det |
| 5 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 job | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 want | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 lend | mark |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lend | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lend | aux |
| 18 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 know | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lend | iobj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mules | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lend | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lend | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 using | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 using | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 using | advmod |
| 29 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 see | ccomp |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 using | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lend | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lend | cc |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 lend | aux |
| 34 | lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | parataxis |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 lend | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hand | det |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lend | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 lend | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | a job | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | a job not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lend a condition, not said to happen | future | your husband | your mules | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient mule=Theme | |||
| 6 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | not use | present · progressive | husband | mules = mule | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 8 | lend | can | a hand | me | husband obl:unmarked | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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