The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 3
Couldn’t we have a game of catch with that golden ball of yours?”
Who acts: we · What happens: not have · To what, where: game
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 catch | case |
| 8 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 game | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 ball | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ball | amod |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 yours | case |
| 14 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ball | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | could | we | a game of catch with that golden ball of yours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
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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