The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 64
But never trouble yourself about that, dearest one, a basket of fresh turnips will soon set matters right, and you can speedily call up again every form you wish to see.
Who acts: basket, dearest, you · What happens: set, matter, call up, wish, see · To what, where: form
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, dearest, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 dearest | cc |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 trouble | advmod |
| 3 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dearest | nsubj |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 trouble | nmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 trouble | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dearest | punct |
| 8 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 matters | nsubj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dearest | nummod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 basket | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 turnips | case |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turnips | amod |
| 15 | turnips | turnip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 basket | nmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 set | advmod |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dearest | acl:relcl |
| 19 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 matters | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 call | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 call | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 call | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 call | aux |
| 25 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 26 call | advmod |
| 26 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 matters | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 call | compound:prt |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 call | advmod |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 form | det |
| 30 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 call | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nsubj |
| 32 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 form | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wish | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | future | a basket of fresh turnips | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | matter | present | dearest | right property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call up speech: assert | can | you | every form | again | speedily property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Recipient | ||
| 4 | wish | present | you | every form not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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