The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 61
“SHE did not know how to sew or make clothes, and she was sure to die of starvation into the bargain if her brother Ironhead did not come soon and bring her some raw meat and bones, for she really could eat nothing else.”
Who acts: Signy, brother · What happens: not know, sew, make, be, die, not come · To what, where: clothes, bargain, raw meat, Signy, nothing · 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 (Signy, brother), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | SHE | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 sew | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sew | mark |
| 8 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sew | conj |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sure | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 starvation | case |
| 20 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 die | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 bargain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bargain | det |
| 23 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 die | obl |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | nsubj |
| 27 | Ironhead | Ironhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | appos |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 come | advmod |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 die | advcl |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bring | cc |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 come | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 meat | det |
| 36 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 meat | amod |
| 37 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bring | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 bones | cc |
| 39 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 meat | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 eat | punct |
| 41 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 eat | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 eat | nsubj |
| 43 | really | really | ADV | _ | 45 eat | advmod |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 eat | aux |
| 45 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 bring | conj |
| 46 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 45 eat | obj |
| 47 | else | else | ADV | _ | 46 nothing | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | Signy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sew in a quote | to-infinitive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | clothes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | Signy | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | Signy not said here | the bargain | of starvation | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer | |||
| 6 | not come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · do-support | Signy's brother | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Signy's brother not said here | some raw meat and bones | Signy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination meat=Theme | |||
| 8 | eat in a quote | could | Signy | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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