The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 112
When you go on from the Place of Gifts, be sure you do not take the right-hand road; take the left, for the other leads by the negro castle, which is known as the Place of Clashing Swords, and where there are forty negro captains each over three thousand or four thousand more.
Who acts: you, Place, forty negro captains · What happens: go on, be, not take, take, know, clash · To what, where: Place, hand road, left, negro castle, Swords
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, Place, forty negro captains), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Place | det |
| 7 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Gifts | case |
| 9 | Gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Place | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | cop |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | compound |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 left | det |
| 25 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 leads | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 leads | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 leads | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 leads | amod |
| 30 | leads | lead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 castle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 castle | det |
| 33 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 castle | compound |
| 34 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 known | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 known | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 known | aux:pass |
| 38 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 castle | acl:relcl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 Place | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Place | det |
| 41 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 known | obl |
| 42 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 Clashing | mark |
| 43 | Clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 Place | acl |
| 44 | Swords | Sword | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 Clashing | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 are | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 are | cc |
| 47 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 are | advmod |
| 48 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 49 are | expl |
| 49 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 50 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 captains | nummod |
| 51 | negro | negro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 captains | amod |
| 52 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 are | nsubj |
| 53 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 56 thousand | det |
| 54 | over | over | ADV | _ | 56 thousand | advmod |
| 55 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 thousand | compound |
| 56 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 captains | appos |
| 57 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 58 four | cc |
| 58 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 56 thousand | conj |
| 59 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 60 more | nummod |
| 60 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 56 thousand | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present | you | the Place of Gifts | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not take | present · do-support | you | the hand road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the left | for the other leads; by the negro castle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent left=Theme for lead=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | know | present · passive | the negro castle | as the Place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as place=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | clash | gerund | the Place not said here | Swords | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | ||||
| 7 | does | present | forty negro captains | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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