The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 90
“I am your fate, and wherever you go, and whatever you do, you will always find me before you.
Who acts: thing, you · What happens: be, go, do, find · To what, where: fate, thing
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 (thing, you), 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 | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fate | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 go | cc |
| 8 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fate | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whatever | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whatever | cc |
| 13 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 go | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fate | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | thing | your fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | you | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | you | thing | before you | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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