The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57
And see, I have brought you some stuff to make your wedding-dress of.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, bring, make · To what, where: stuff, you, wedding dress
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 (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 see | conj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 stuff | det |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brought | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dress | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dress | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wedding | punct |
| 15 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dress | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | I | some stuff | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination stuff=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | your wedding dress | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dress=Product |
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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