The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 54

A negro will appear before you, and you will tell him that he is to level the hill, and to make, in its place, the most beautiful garden that ever was seen.”

Who acts: negro, you · What happens: appear, tell, be, make, see · To what, where: negro, place, beautiful garden · 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	before	before	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appear	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 level	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 level	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 level	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 level	mark
17	level	level	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 level	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appear	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 place	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 place	nmod:poss
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 garden	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 garden	det
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 garden	amod
32	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 place	appos
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 seen	nsubj
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 seen	advmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 garden	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	future	a negro			before you		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before you=Location
2	tell speech: assert	future	you		negro			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	present	negro				level property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	a negro not said here	hill's place				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product
5	see	past · passive		the beautiful garden		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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