The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 25
If you do, you will find that all the gold and silver has changed into a parcel of charred bones.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, find, change, char · To what, where: gold, parcel · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 changed | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 gold | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gold | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silver | cc |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gold | conj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 changed | aux |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 find | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 parcel | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parcel | det |
| 18 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bones | case |
| 20 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bones | amod |
| 21 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 parcel | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | future | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | change | present · perfect · passive | all gold and silver | into a parcel of charred bones result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into parcel=Result | ||||
| 4 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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