The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 67
“Yes, certainly, grandfather,” replied the fox, “if you have patience to suffer what I suffered.”
Who acts: grandfather, you · What happens: reply, have, suffer · To what, where: fox, patience · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grandfather, 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 grandfather | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 6 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandfather | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandfather | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 suffer | mark |
| 19 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 patience | acl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 suffered | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 suffered | nsubj |
| 22 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 suffer | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | grandfather | the fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | patience not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | past | grandfather | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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