The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 117
“He is a beautiful boy, and it is a great pity; but what IS to happen WILL happen,” said they.
Who acts: king, child, beautiful boy, fairies · What happens: be, happen, say · To what, where: beautiful boy, great pity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, child, beautiful boy, fairies), 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 | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 happen | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pity | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pity | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pity | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pity | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pity | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pity | amod |
| 13 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 happen | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 happen | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happen | nsubj |
| 17 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 happen | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 happen | mark |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 boy | conj |
| 20 | WILL | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 happen | aux |
| 21 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | king | a beautiful boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | child | a great pity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a beautiful boy | happen property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | future | a beautiful boy | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | fairies = fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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