The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 69
3 (return) [Life-giving diamond.]
Who acts: return · What happens: give · To what, where: diamond
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 (return), 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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Life | punct |
| 6 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 return | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Life | punct |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 return | acl |
| 9 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 3 | punct |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | return not said here | diamond | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme |
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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