The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 50
“But if you are very good, perhaps, in about a week, I may carry you home again.”
Who acts: you, Kisa · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: you
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 | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 good | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 good | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 good | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 perhaps | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 good | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 week | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 week | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 week | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 good | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 carry | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 carry | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | may | Kisa | you | again; week | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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