The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 23
This empty fancy it is that has done many a servant of God to death!”
What happens: do · To what, where: empty fancy
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fancy | det |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fancy | amod |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 done | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 servant | det |
| 11 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 servant | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect · passive | this empty fancy | to death | 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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