The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 88
“What would you do, my tail, if someone was to betray me?”
Who acts: you, someone · What happens: do, be · To what, where: tail
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 (you, someone), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tail | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 betray | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 betray | mark |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 betray | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 betray | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 betray | mark |
| 14 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 betray | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would | you | my tail | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | someone | betray 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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