The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89
“I would steer you so straight a course that you would soon be beyond his reach.
Who acts: bear, course · What happens: steer, be · To what, where: you
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 (bear, course), 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 steer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 steer | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 steer | aux |
| 4 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 steer | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 straight | advmod |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 course | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 course | det |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steer | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 reach | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 reach | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 reach | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reach | cop |
| 15 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 reach | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 reach | nmod:poss |
| 17 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 course | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 steer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer in a quote | would | bear | you | a course obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | a course | beyond bear's reach; soon 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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