The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 69
And now go; in that hut, which you can just see far away, live your father and mother, who are old people now, and need a son to hunt for them.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: go, see, live, be, need, hunt · To what, where: hut, father, old people, son
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 (you, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 go | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 hut | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 see | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hut | parataxis |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | punct |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mother | cc |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 father | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 people | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 people | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 people | cop |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 father | conj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 live | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 need | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 need | cc |
| 30 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 son | det |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 need | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 hunt | mark |
| 34 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 need | advcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hunt | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | that hut | now | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 2 | see | can | you | that hut | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live | infinitive | you not said here | your father and mother and old people | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme father=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | present | your father and mother and old people | old people | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | need | present | a son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hunt | to-infinitive | for people | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for they=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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