The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 50
“I shall go and tell the water-demons that we expect them to dinner to-night.
Who acts: friends, we · What happens: go, tell, expect · To what, where: water demons · 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 (friends, we), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tell | cc |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 demons | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demons | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
| 10 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 expect | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 demons | acl:relcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expect | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dinner | mark |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expect | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expect | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | shall | your friends = friend | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your friends = friend not said here | the water demons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | expect in a quote | present | we | the water demons | night | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme they=Eventuality |
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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