The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 13
Perhaps, some day, she will return, and then you must bring her to me.”
Who acts: Kisa, you · What happens: return, bring · To what, where: Kisa, me
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 return | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 return | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | aux |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 bring | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | future | Kisa | day | perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | must | you | Kisa | me | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=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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