The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 49
“Of course you won’t be able to walk for some time; you must not expect THAT,” she continued.
Who acts: you, Kisa · What happens: not be, walk, not expect, continue · To what, where: THAT · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Kisa), 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 | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 able | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 continued | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 walk | mark |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 expect | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 expect | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 expect | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 expect | advmod |
| 18 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | parataxis |
| 19 | THAT | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 expect | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 continued | nsubj |
| 23 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not expect in a quote | must | you | THAT | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | Kisa | 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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