The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 90
“However, I shall be more fortunate to-morrow, I am sure.”
Who acts: tortoise · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortoise), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortunate | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 fortunate | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 However | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fortunate | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fortunate | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fortunate | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fortunate | advmod |
| 8 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fortunate | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sure | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortunate | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortunate | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | the tortoise = tortoise | to morrow; fortunate, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the tortoise = tortoise | sure property | tree rules |
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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