The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 71
“The elves bathe here,” he said, “and if you put in your tail the fish will catch hold of it.
Who acts: elves, bear, you · What happens: bathe, say, put, catch, hold · To what, where: fish, tail, hold · 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 (elves, bear, 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 | _ | 4 bathe | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elves | det |
| 3 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bathe | nsubj |
| 4 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bathe | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bathe | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bathe | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 catch | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 catch | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 catch | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 put | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | aux |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hold | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bathe in a quote | present | the elves | here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the fish | your tail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in tail=Destination | |||
| 4 | catch in a quote | future | bear not said here | hold of hold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold in a quote | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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