The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 52
And why, when you had got the reindeer, did you kill them?”
Who acts: you · What happens: get, kill · To what, where: reindeer, bones
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 kill | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reindeer | det |
| 9 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | you | the reindeer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reindeer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · do-support | you | bones = bone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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