The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 27
You must produce the person who can confirm my words.”
Who acts: You, person, my · What happens: produce, confirm, word · To what, where: person, words
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 (You, person, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 produce | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 produce | aux |
| 3 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produce | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 confirm | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 confirm | aux |
| 8 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 person | acl:relcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 confirm | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produce | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 produce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | must | You | the person | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Result | ||||
| 2 | confirm | can | the person | my words | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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