The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 8
Why, I could find my way straight up to that cot this moment, if I was once inside the palace.”
Who acts: I · What happens: find, be · To what, where: way, palace
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 (I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 cot | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 cot | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 up | fixed |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 cot | det |
| 12 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 palace | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 palace | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 palace | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 palace | cop |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 palace | advmod |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 palace | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could | I | my way | moment | up that cot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the palace | once property | tree rules |
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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