The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 91
“I suppose you don’t happen to have any you could lend me?”
Who acts: fox, you · What happens: suppose, not happen, have, lend · To what, where: any, fox · 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 (fox, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 happen | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 happen | advmod |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happen | xcomp |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 lend | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lend | aux |
| 13 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 any | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lend | iobj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the fox = fox | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not happen in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | any | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lend in a quote | could | you | the fox = fox | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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