The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 97
“Show me what you can do, cock,” cried he.
Who acts: you, lid · What happens: show, do, cock, cry · To what, where: lid · 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 (you, lid), 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 | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 2 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Show | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Show | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cock | punct |
| 9 | cock | cock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Show | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | infinitive | lid | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cock in a quote | infinitive | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | lid | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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