The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 30
“I shall explain myself fully when you bring here the negro whom you hide beneath your throne.”
Who acts: person, you · What happens: explain, bring, hide · To what, where: person, negro, throne
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 (person, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 explain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 explain | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 explain | aux |
| 4 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 explain | obj |
| 6 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 4 explain | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 bring | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 explain | advcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bring | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 negro | det |
| 12 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hide | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | nsubj |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 negro | acl:relcl |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 throne | nmod:poss |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hide | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explain | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert in a quote | shall | person | person | fully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | you | the negro | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent negro=Theme | |||
| 3 | hide in a quote | present | you | the negro | your throne | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Patient beneath throne=Location |
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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