The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 7
“Well, bring me one like it, and we will see which can run the faster.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: bring, see, run · To what, where: one, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 bring | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 run | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faster | det |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 run | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | one | a dog and prince = dog | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination one=Theme | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | can | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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