The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 72
“You won’t slip on MY back,” said the perch, coming forward.
Who acts: You, perch · What happens: not slip, say, come forward · To what, where: back · 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, perch), 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 | _ | 5 slip | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 slip | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slip | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 slip | advmod |
| 5 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slip | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slip | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 slip | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 perch | det |
| 13 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slip in a quote | future | You | MY back | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the perch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come forward | gerund | the perch not said here | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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