The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 103

For you have a dear kitten just like yourself, and I have nobody to play with but you.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, play · To what, where: dear kitten, nobody

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kitten	det
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kitten	amod
6	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 yourself	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 yourself	case
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 nobody	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	16 play	obl
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 you	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	a dear kitten	like yourself	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient
2	have	present	I	nobody		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
3	play	to-infinitive	I not said here	nobody not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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