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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 93

“Oh, it is only for a very short time that I need them,” said the fox; “I have a pair of my own just behind that hill, and when I find them I will bring yours back to you.

Who acts: gleam, fox · What happens: be, need, say, have, find, bring back · To what, where: short time, pair, hill, sticks, yours, you · 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 (gleam, fox), 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

punctdiscoursepunctnsubjcopadvmodcasedetadvmodamodccompobjnsubjacl:relclobjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjccompdetobjcasenmod:possnmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclobjnsubjauxconjobjadvmodcaseoblpunctroot“PUNCTOhINTJ,PUNCTitPRONisAUXonlyADVforADPaDETveryADVshortADJtimeNOUNthatPRONIPRONneedVERBthemPRON,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETfoxNOUN;PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONhaveVERBaDETpairNOUNofADPmyPRONownADJjustADVbehindADPthatDEThillNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVIPRONfindVERBthemPRONIPRONwillAUXbringVERByoursPRONbackADVtoADPyouPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_18 saidpunct
2OhohINTJ_11 timediscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Ohpunct
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 timensubj
5isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 timecop
6onlyonlyADV_11 timeadvmod
7forforADP_11 timecase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 timedet
9veryveryADV_10 shortadvmod
10shortshortADJDegree=Pos11 timeamod
11timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing18 saidccomp
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel14 needobj
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 neednsubj
14needneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 timeacl:relcl
15themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 needobj
16,,PUNCT_11 timepunct
17”"PUNCT_11 timepunct
18saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 foxdet
20foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing18 saidobj
21;;PUNCT_24 havepunct
22“"PUNCT_24 havepunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 havensubj
24havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 saidccomp
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 pairdet
26pairpairNOUNNumber=Sing24 haveobj
27ofofADP_29 owncase
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 ownnmod:poss
29ownownADJDegree=Pos26 pairnmod
30justjustADV_33 hilladvmod
31behindbehindADP_33 hillcase
32thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem33 hilldet
33hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing24 haveobl
34,,PUNCT_42 bringpunct
35andandCCONJ_42 bringcc
36whenwhenADVPronType=Int38 findadvmod
37IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 findnsubj
38findfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 bringadvcl
39themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs38 findobj
40IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs42 bringnsubj
41willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin42 bringaux
42bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf24 haveconj
43yoursyourPRONPerson=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 bringobj
44backbackADV_42 bringadvmod
45totoADP_46 youcase
46youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs42 bringobl
47..PUNCT_18 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is in a quotepresentgleamfor a short timetree rules
2need in a quotepresentthe fox = foxa short timetree rules
3say speech: assertpastthe foxvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4have in a quotepresentthe fox = foxa pair of my ownthat hillvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
5find in a quotepresentthe fox = foxsticks = stickvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6bring back in a quotefuturethe fox = foxyoursyouvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent your=Theme to you=Destination

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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