The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 6
“You can’t play in the rain, and if you did, you would only lose it in the bushes,” said the cat.
Who acts: You, cat · What happens: not play, do, lose, say · To what, where: rain, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, cat), 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 | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 play | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 play | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 play | advmod |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rain | det |
| 8 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lose | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lose | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lose | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lose | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 lose | advmod |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 play | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lose | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bushes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bushes | det |
| 22 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lose | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cat | det |
| 27 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play in a quote | can | You | the rain | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | would | you | rain | the bushes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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