The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 27
“You will succeed in this also,” whispered the Sister of the Sun, pressing his hand, “for in my ship is a magic sword which will cut through everything.
Who acts: You, Sister, magic sword · What happens: succeed, whisper, press, be, cut · To what, where: this, hand, magic sword · 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 (You, Sister, magic sword), 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 succeed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeed | aux |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 whispered | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 succeed | obl |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 succeed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sister | det |
| 12 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Sun | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sun | det |
| 15 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sister | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pressing | punct |
| 17 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whispered | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pressing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sword | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 sword | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 ship | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ship | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ship | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sword | obl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sword | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sword | det |
| 28 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sword | amod |
| 29 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pressing | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 cut | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 cut | aux |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sword | acl:relcl |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 everything | case |
| 34 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 cut | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed in a quote | future | You | this | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Sister of the Sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | press | gerund | the Sister of the Sun not said here | youth's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a magic sword | for my ship | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cut in a quote | future | a magic sword | through everything | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through everything=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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