The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 116
I myself will deliver you the papers at the last moment.”
Who acts: I · What happens: deliver · To what, where: papers, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deliver | nsubj |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 deliver | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deliver | aux |
| 4 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 deliver | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 papers | det |
| 7 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deliver | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moment | amod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deliver | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deliver | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | future | I | the papers | you | moment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary paper=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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