The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 54
It is my comrades who have slain them in spite of my prayers.”
Who acts: misfortune, comrades, my · What happens: be, slay, spite, pray · To what, where: comrades, spite, prayers
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 (misfortune, comrades, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comrades | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comrades | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 4 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 slain | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | aux |
| 7 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 comrades | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slain | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 prayers | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spite | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comrades | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comrades | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | misfortune | my comrades | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | present · perfect | my comrades | comrades = comrade | spite of my prayers | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | spite | my prayers | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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