The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 51
“If we can only get hold of that basket it will make our fortune!”
Who acts: we, hold · What happens: get, make, hold · To what, where: hold, fortune, basket
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 (we, hold), 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 | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | csubj |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | nmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | hold of that basket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | hold | our fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fortune=Product | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | that basket | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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