The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 62
“How do you propose that I should work that miracle?”
Who acts: you, sword · What happens: propose, work · To what, where: miracle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sword), 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 | _ | 5 propose | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 propose | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 propose | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 propose | nsubj |
| 5 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 work | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | aux |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 propose | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 miracle | det |
| 11 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 propose | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | should | sword | that miracle | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent miracle=Material |
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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