The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86

It would be a pity for a man like you to fall into the hands of jins and demons.

Who acts: road, you · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: pity, hands

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 (road, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pity	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pity	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pity	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pity	det
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pity	nmod
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 fall	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 fall	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fall	mark
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pity	acl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hands	det
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fall	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 jins	case
17	jins	jin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hands	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 demons	cc
19	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 jins	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	road	a pity				for a man	tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	you					into the hands of jins and demons result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result

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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