The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 29
“Now,” said he to his sister, “I will have the trees hollowed out, and then I will make rooms in them and furnish them so that I shall be able to live out in the forest.”
Who acts: king, trees · What happens: say, have, hollow out, make, furnish, be · To what, where: sister, rooms, trees, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, trees), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hollowed | nsubj |
| 17 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 make | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | parataxis |
| 25 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rooms | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 furnish | cc |
| 29 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 furnish | obj |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 able | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 able | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 able | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | cop |
| 36 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 furnish | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 live | mark |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | xcomp |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 live | compound:prt |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 forest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 forest | det |
| 42 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 live | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | king's sister | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hollow out in a quote | past | the trees | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | king | rooms | then | in trees = tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product | ||
| 5 | furnish in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | trees = tree | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | shall | king | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live out in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
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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