The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 2
And the first is that in a single day he must cut down every tree in an entire forest.
Who acts: bridegroom · What happens: be, cut down · To what, where: tree, entire forest
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 (bridegroom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 first | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 first | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | aux |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 first | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 18 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut down | must | bridegroom | every tree | a entire forest | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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