The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 38
How can I be sure that you will always be as loving and charming as you are now?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sure | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 loving | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 loving | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 loving | aux |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 loving | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 loving | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 loving | case |
| 12 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 charming | cc |
| 14 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 loving | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 loving | advcl |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 are | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | always, loving property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | does | present | you | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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