The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 84

“Suppose we begin with a short race, and then we will go on to other things.”

Who acts: we · What happens: begin, go on

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 (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 begin	punct
2	Suppose	suppose	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	4 begin	parataxis
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 begin	nsubj
4	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 race	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 race	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 race	amod
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begin	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 go	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begin	conj
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 things	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	present	we					with a short race	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with race=Subeventuality
2	go on in a quote	future	we				then	to other things	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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