The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 31
They will think that I am mad, and I shall be hooted from the palace and stoned by the children.”
Who acts: neighbours, I · What happens: think, be, hoot, stone · To what, where: I, palace · 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 (neighbours, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 mad | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mad | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mad | cop |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hooted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hooted | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hooted | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hooted | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hooted | aux:pass |
| 13 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mad | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hooted | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stoned | cc |
| 18 | stoned | stone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 mad | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 children | det |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stoned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | neighbours = neighbour | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hoot | shall · passive | I | the palace | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stone | participle | I not said here | by the children | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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