The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 66

Then Jamila said: “Unless I am mistaken, this is the work of my wicked sister Latifa, who by magic art turns servants of God into beasts of the field.”

Who acts: Jamila, this, work · What happens: say, be, turn · To what, where: work, servants, beasts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jamila, this, work), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Unless	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Unless	punct
6	Unless	unless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 mistaken	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mistaken	cop
9	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Unless	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 work	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 work	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 work	det
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 sister	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sister	amod
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 work	nmod
19	Latifa	Latifa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sister	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turns	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 turns	nsubj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 art	case
23	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 art	amod
24	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turns	obl
25	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 work	parataxis
26	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turns	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 God	case
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 servants	nmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 beasts	case
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turns	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beasts	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jamila			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Jamila				mistaken property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	this	the work			of my wicked sister	tree rules
4	turn in a quote	present	the work	servants of God	beasts of the field		by magic art	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme by art=Source into beast=Trajectory

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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