The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 107
“When I am dead do not bury me in the earth,” he said, “but put me over there, among that clump of trees.”
Who acts: Carrier · What happens: be, not bury, say, put · To what, where: Carrier, earth, clump · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier), 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 | _ | 8 bury | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dead | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bury | ccomp |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bury | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bury | advmod |
| 8 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bury | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bury | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bury | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bury | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 put | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clump | punct |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 clump | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 clump | det |
| 27 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 clump | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Carrier | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bury in a quote | present · do-support | Carrier | the earth | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in earth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Carrier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | Carrier | that clump of trees; there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme among clump=Destination |
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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