The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 82
But something has happened, I don’t know what, and it won’t work any more.”
Who acts: something, I, garden · What happens: happen, not know, not work
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 (something, I, garden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 work | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 work | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 work | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 work | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 work | advmod |
| 16 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 work | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 work | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not work | future | garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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