The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 84
I will go and see if I can find anything for you.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, see, find · To what, where: anything
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 anything | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | I | anything | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent anything=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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