The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 32
I will bring all my pretty things and ornaments, and the trees are so near home we shall be quite safe in them.”
Who acts: I, trees · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: pretty things, home
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det:predet |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 things | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ornaments | cc |
| 9 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 things | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 safe | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 safe | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 safe | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 safe | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 safe | advmod |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 safe | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 safe | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 safe | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 safe | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 safe | advmod |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 safe | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | I | my pretty things and ornaments | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | shall · present | the trees | home | in ornaments = ornament; safe property | 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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