The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 84

“Ah! you may think so,” said one, “but a blow from one end of this stick will kill a man, while a touch from the other end will bring him back to life.

Who acts: you, blow, touch · What happens: think, say, kill, bring back · To what, where: one, man, life · 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, blow, touch), 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	_	6 think	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kill	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 kill	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 kill	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blow	det
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	nsubj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 end	nummod
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blow	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 stick	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 stick	det
22	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kill	aux
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 bring	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 touch	det
30	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	nsubj
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 end	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 end	amod
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touch	nmod
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 kill	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 bring	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 life	case
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	may	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past		one		tree rules
3	kill in a quote	future	a blow from one end of this stick	a man		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	bring back in a quote	future	a touch from the other end	man	life	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=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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