The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 60
“Your master bids you level the hill that stands in front of the sultan’s palace and in its place to make the most beautiful garden in the world.”
Who acts: master, you, hill · What happens: bid, level, stand, make · To what, where: hill, front, beautiful garden, world · 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 (master, you, 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 | _ | 4 bids | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bids | nsubj |
| 4 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 level | nsubj |
| 6 | level | level | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bids | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 level | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stands | nsubj |
| 10 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hill | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sultan | det |
| 15 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 sultan | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 place | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stands | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 garden | amod |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bids | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bids | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid in a quote | present | Your master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | level in a quote | present | you | the hill | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present | the hill | front of the sultan's palace and palace's place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the hill not said here | the beautiful garden | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product |
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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