The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 67
“YOU may think that there is nothing on it,” answered she, “but I can assure you that there is a large skein of wool, so fine that nobody can see it, which will be woven into a coat for you.”
Who acts: YOU, nothing, I, subject, nobody · What happens: think, be, answer, assure, see, weave · To what, where: you, large skein, wheel, coat · 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, nothing, I, subject), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 skein | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 skein | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 skein | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 assure | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 assure | aux |
| 20 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 skein | csubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | iobj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 is | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 skein | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 skein | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skein | amod |
| 27 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wool | case |
| 29 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 skein | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fine | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 fine | advmod |
| 32 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skein | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 34 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fine | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 see | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 woven | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 woven | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 woven | aux:pass |
| 42 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 see | parataxis |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 coat | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 coat | det |
| 45 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 woven | obl |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 you | case |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 woven | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | may | YOU | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | assure in a quote | can | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | subject | a large skein | of wool | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see in a quote | can | nobody | wheel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | weave in a quote | future · passive | a coat | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material into coat=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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