The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 80
In forty days he must build me a palace, in which every room shall be filled with different furniture from a different country, and each more magnificent than any room that ever was seen.”
Who acts: son · What happens: build, fill, see · To what, where: palace, me, room
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 (son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 build | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 build | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 build | aux |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 build | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 filled | obl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 build | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 furniture | case |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 furniture | amod |
| 20 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 23 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 furniture | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 magnificent | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 magnificent | cc |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 magnificent | nsubj |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 magnificent | advmod |
| 29 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 build | parataxis |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 room | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 room | det |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 magnificent | obl |
| 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 room | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | must | son | a palace | me | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product | ||
| 2 | fill | shall · passive | every room | with different furniture from a different country | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with furniture=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | any room | 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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