The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 94
Now, surely, if he gave a spring he could get in front of it!
Who acts: boy · What happens: give, get · To what, where: front
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 (boy), 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 | 12 get | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 surely | punct |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 1 Now | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spring | det |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | past | boy | spring | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | could | boy | front of ball | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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