The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 56
“If you happen to pass my eldest sister’s house, will you give her this letter?” said she.
Who acts: you, Sister · What happens: happen, pass, give, say · To what, where: house, letter, Sister · 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), 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 | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 happen | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happen | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my eldest sister's house | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | you | this letter | Sister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Sister | 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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