The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 111
In this way you will enfold that lion-king in perfect friendship, and he will be most useful to you, and you will be safe from molestation by the negroes.
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: enfold, be · To what, where: lion king, way, you, molestation
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enfold | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 enfold | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 enfold | aux |
| 6 | enfold | enfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 king | det |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 lion | punct |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enfold | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 friendship | case |
| 12 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friendship | amod |
| 13 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enfold | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 useful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 useful | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 useful | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 useful | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 useful | cop |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 useful | advmod |
| 20 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enfold | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 useful | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 safe | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 safe | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 safe | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 safe | cop |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 useful | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 molestation | case |
| 30 | molestation | molestation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 safe | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 negroes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 negroes | det |
| 33 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 safe | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enfold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enfold | future | you | that lion king | this way | in perfect friendship | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | future | prince | you | useful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | future | you | molestation | by the negroes; safe 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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