The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 43
“Well, in forty days the man who has sent you must make that hill vanish, and plant a beautiful garden in its place.
Who acts: man, hill · What happens: send, make, vanish, plant · To what, where: you, hill, beautiful garden, place
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 (man, hill), 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 | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 make | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 man | acl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | iobj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hill | det |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hill | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plant | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 plant | cc |
| 20 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garden | amod |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plant | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plant | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present · perfect | the man | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | must | the man | that hill | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Product | |||
| 3 | vanish in a quote | present | that hill not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | plant in a quote | infinitive | the man not said here | a beautiful garden | hill's place | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme in place=Destination |
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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