The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 68
Then Jamila was sure it was a man, and said: “Be comforted, I will restore you to your own shape.”
Who acts: Jamila, head, I · What happens: be, say, comfort, restore · To what, where: man, you, own shape · 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, head, I), 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 | 4 sure | advmod |
| 2 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 comforted | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 comforted | punct |
| 14 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 comforted | aux:pass |
| 15 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 restore | csubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comforted | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 restore | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 restore | aux |
| 19 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 restore | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shape | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shape | amod |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 restore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 restore | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jamila | then | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | head | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | comfort in a quote | infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 5 | restore in a quote | future | I | you | your own shape | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to shape=Recipient |
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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