The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 91
There is only one means of shaking off my power.
Who acts: one means · What happens: be, shake off · To what, where: power
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 (one means), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2283): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 means | nummod |
| 5 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 shaking | mark |
| 7 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | acl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 shaking | compound:prt |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shaking | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | one means | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake off | gerund | one means not said here | my power | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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