The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 124
In his house is much gold, and what is more precious even than the gold, a little bridge, which lengthens out when the Bad One waves his hand, so that there is no river or sea that he cannot cross.
Who acts: much gold, little bridge, Bad One, river · What happens: be, lengthen out, wave, not cross · To what, where: much gold, house, hand, river
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much gold, little bridge, Bad One, river), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gold | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 precious | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 precious | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 precious | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 precious | cop |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 precious | advmod |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | conj |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 gold | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gold | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precious | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bridge | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bridge | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bridge | amod |
| 20 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lengthens | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lengthens | nsubj |
| 23 | lengthens | lengthen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 lengthens | compound:prt |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 waves | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 One | det |
| 27 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 One | amod |
| 28 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waves | nsubj |
| 29 | waves | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lengthens | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waves | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 is | punct |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 is | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 so | fixed |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 is | expl |
| 36 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 waves | advcl |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 river | det |
| 38 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 is | nsubj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 sea | cc |
| 40 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 river | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 cross | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 cross | nsubj |
| 43 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 cross | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 cross | advmod |
| 45 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 river | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | much gold and a little bridge | boy's house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | much gold and a little bridge | than the gold; precious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lengthen out | present | a little bridge | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | wave | present | the Bad One | boy's hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 5 | does | present | no river or sea | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not cross | can | river | no river or sea not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
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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