The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 8
In my ship you will find an axe, which you must carry off to the forest.
Who acts: you, axe · What happens: find, carry off · To what, where: axe, ship, 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 (you, axe), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 ship | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ship | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carry | aux |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 axe | acl:relcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 carry | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | you | a axe | my ship | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic | |||
| 2 | carry off | must | a axe | the forest | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to forest=Destination |
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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