The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 51

And at any rate I shall have an adventure, and that is always something!”

Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: adventure, rate, something

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 rate	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rate	det
4	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adventure	det
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 something	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 something	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 something	cop
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 something	advmod
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 have	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	shall	I	a adventure		any rate			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
2	is a	present	that	something				always property	tree rules

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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