The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 16
“You will find it a very difficult matter to get hold of the hens,” replied the fox.
Who acts: You, fox · What happens: find, get, reply, hold · To what, where: counsel, hold, hens · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fox), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 matter | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 difficult | advmod |
| 8 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 matter | amod |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 matter | acl |
| 12 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hens | det |
| 15 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hold | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | future | You | counsel | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme matter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | hold of the hens | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | the hens | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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