The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 57

Grass will be selling well to-day!”

Who acts: Grass · What happens: sell

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grass), 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	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selling	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 selling	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 selling	aux
4	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 selling	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selling	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 selling	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 selling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	future · progressive	Grass				day	well property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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