The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 93

“O very stuff of my life,” replied Jamila “I will give you things that are not in kings’ treasuries, and which will be of the greatest use to you.

Who acts: stuff, Jamila, things · What happens: reply, give, not be, be · To what, where: things, you, treasuries · 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 (stuff, Jamila, things), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 stuff	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	4 stuff	discourse
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 stuff	advmod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuff	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuff	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 stuff	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 give	nsubj
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 treasuries	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 treasuries	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 treasuries	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 treasuries	case
22	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 treasuries	nmod:poss
23	’	's	PART	_	22 kings	case
24	treasuries	treasury	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 things	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 use	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 use	cc
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 use	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 use	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 use	cop
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 use	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 use	det
32	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 use	amod
33	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 use	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	stuff of my life					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	Jamila	things	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Theme
3	not is in a quote	present	things			kings's treasuries		tree rules
4	is in a quote	future			you		of the greatest use	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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