The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 99
Perhaps, by your favour, I shall accomplish my task and avenge my brothers.”
Who acts: I, your, my · What happens: accomplish, avenge, favour, task · To what, where: task, brothers
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, your, my), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 accomplish | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 favour | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 favour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accomplish | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 favour | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 accomplish | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 accomplish | aux |
| 9 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 task | nmod:poss |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accomplish | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 avenge | cc |
| 13 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accomplish | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 avenge | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accomplish | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 accomplish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | shall | I | my task | by your favour; perhaps property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | avenge | present | I not said here | my brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | favour | your | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | task | my | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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