The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 79
But when I walk across it I shall need some place to rest on the other side.
Who acts: I · What happens: walk, need, rest · To what, where: colour, place, other side
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 need | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walk | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | nsubj |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | advcl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walk | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 need | aux |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rest | mark |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 place | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | I | colour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | need | shall | I | some place | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | I not said here | some place not said here | the other side | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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