The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 17

A negro will appear in answer, and you must tell him to open the trunk, and to give you the red purse which he will find there.”

Who acts: negro, you · What happens: appear, tell, open, give, find · To what, where: answer, negro, trunk, red purse, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 answer	case
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appear	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 open	mark
14	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trunk	det
16	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 open	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 purse	det
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 purse	amod
24	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 find	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 purse	acl:relcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 find	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	appear	future	a negro			answer	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location
2	tell speech: assert	must	you		negro		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the trunk			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme
4	give	to-infinitive	you not said here	the red purse	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient purse=Theme
5	find	future	negro	the red purse		there	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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