The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 89
We have need of such as him, and a little discipline will do him good.”
Who acts: We, little discipline · What happens: have, do, need · To what, where: need, story
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 (We, little discipline), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 him | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 discipline | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 discipline | amod |
| 12 | discipline | discipline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | need of story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | future | a little discipline | story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | story | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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