The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 90
But his mate said, “Let us look into the nest first for to kill an innocent person would condemn us at the Day of Resurrection.”
Who acts: mate, us, innocent person · What happens: say, let, look, kill, condemn · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mate, us, innocent person), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Let | obj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nest | det |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 look | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 kill | case |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 condemn | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 condemn | aux |
| 21 | condemn | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 kill | ccomp |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 condemn | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 Day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Day | det |
| 25 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 condemn | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Resurrection | case |
| 27 | Resurrection | Resurrection | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Day | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | into the nest; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into nest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | condemn in a quote | would | a innocent person | us | at the Day of Resurrection | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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