The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 47
“My grandson, did you ever manage to get that gold from the Bad One?”
Who acts: grandson, you · What happens: do, manage, get · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandson, you), 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 | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grandson | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 manage | nsubj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 manage | advmod |
| 8 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 manage | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 gold | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 One | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 One | det |
| 15 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 One | amod |
| 16 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | My grandson | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | manage in a quote | present | you | ever | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that gold | from the Bad One | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from one=Source |
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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