The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 61
Then you must beg, as a last favour, that your body may be anointed with oil so that you may burn the more quickly and be spared torture.
Who acts: you · What happens: beg, anoint, burn, spare · To what, where: body, torture · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:410): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beg | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beg | aux |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 favour | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 favour | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 favour | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 favour | amod |
| 9 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 anointed | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 anointed | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 anointed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 anointed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 anointed | aux:pass |
| 16 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beg | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 oil | case |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 anointed | obl |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 burn | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 burn | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 burn | aux |
| 23 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 anointed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 more | det |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 quickly | advmod |
| 26 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 23 burn | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spared | cc |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 spared | aux:pass |
| 29 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 burn | conj |
| 30 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spared | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | must | you | then | as a last favour | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | anoint | may · passive | your body | with oil | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with oil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | may | you | quickly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | spare | infinitive · passive | you not said here | torture | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: torture=Asset |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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