The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 23
“It is a magical basket, and if you are hungry you have only got to say: ‘Little basket, little basket, do your duty,’ and you will eat the best dinner you ever had in your life.
Who acts: basket, you · What happens: be, get, say, eat, have · To what, where: magical basket, best dinner, life · 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 (basket, 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 | _ | 6 basket | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 basket | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 basket | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 5 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 basket | amod |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 hungry | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 got | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 basket | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | xcomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 basket | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 basket | punct |
| 21 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 basket | amod |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 basket | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 basket | punct |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 basket | amod |
| 25 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 basket | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 duty | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 duty | aux |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 duty | nmod:poss |
| 29 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 basket | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 duty | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 basket | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 eat | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 eat | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 eat | aux |
| 35 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 basket | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dinner | det |
| 37 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 dinner | amod |
| 38 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 eat | obj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 40 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 had | advmod |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dinner | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 life | case |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 life | nmod:poss |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 basket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | basket | a magical basket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | future | you | the best dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | you | the best dinner not said here | your life | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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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