The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 27
I will put you into such a state that the birds of the air will weep for you.”
Who acts: I, birds · What happens: put, weep · To what, where: you, state
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 state | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 weep | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 weep | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 weep | aux |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 weep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | you | such state | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | |||
| 2 | weep | future | the birds of the air | for you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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