The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 79
Father Grumbler, who has as many children as sparrows in the garden.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: have · To what, where: many children
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), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Father | acl:relcl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sparrows | case |
| 10 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 children | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sparrows | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Father | many children | as sparrows in the garden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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