The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 60
Well, I have only got to say, ‘Little basket, little basket, do your duty,’ and you will see what will happen.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: get, say, do, see, happen · To what, where: Little basket, duty · 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 (I, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 basket | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 basket | punct |
| 11 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 basket | amod |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 basket | punct |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 basket | amod |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 basket | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 duty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | conj |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 happen | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 happen | aux |
| 28 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | Little basket and little basket | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | your duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | future | 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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