The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 48
We should be eternally your debtors.
Who acts: We · What happens: be · To what, where: debtors
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 debtors | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 debtors | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 debtors | cop |
| 4 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 6 debtors | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 debtors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | debtors | debtor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 debtors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | should | We | your debtors | eternally 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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