The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 6
‘She is for our youngest brother, as we promised.’
Who acts: bride, we · What happens: be, promise · To what, where: youngest brother
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, we), 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 | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 brother | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 promised | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bride | for our youngest brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | we | our youngest brother not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent brother=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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