The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 125

Now I want that bridge and some of the gold for myself, and that is the reason that I have stolen so many boys by means of my ball.

Who acts: I, that, reason · What happens: want, be, steal, mean · To what, where: bridge, reason

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 (I, that, reason), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 want	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gold	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 gold	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 gold	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gold	det
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bridge	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 myself	case
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 want	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reason	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reason	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 reason	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 reason	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reason	det
18	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stolen	nsubj:pass
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 stolen	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stolen	aux
22	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 reason	acl:relcl
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boys	amod
25	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stolen	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	22 stolen	obl
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 ball	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ball	nmod:poss
30	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	that bridge and the gold	now	for myself	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bridge=Theme
2	is a	present	that	the reason			tree rules
3	steal	present · perfect · passive		the reason			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary boy=Theme
4	mean	present	the reason			of my ball	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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