The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 14

“I will go and see the Holy Man in the cave near the well,” he said to himself, “and perhaps he can tell me why all the luck is for other people, and only misfortunes happen to me.”

Who acts: Father, luck, misfortunes · What happens: go, see, say, tell, be, happen · To what, where: Holy Man, cave, Father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, luck, misfortunes), 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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Man	det
8	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	9 Man	compound
9	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 well	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 well	det
15	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cave	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 tell	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	37 people	advmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 luck	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 luck	det
33	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 people	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 people	cop
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 people	case
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tell	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 happen	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 happen	cc
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 misfortunes	advmod
41	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 happen	nsubj
42	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 happen	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	Father					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see in a quote	infinitive	Father not said here	the Holy Man		the cave near the well		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Father		Father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Father		Father		perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	all luck				for other people	tree rules
6	happen in a quote	present	misfortunes		Father			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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