The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 76
‘Somehow or other I must free my brother, who has fallen into the power of an old witch.’
Who acts: brother · What happens: fall · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 free | punct |
| 2 | Somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 7 free | advmod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 other | cc |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Somehow | conj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 free | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 free | aux |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 free | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fallen | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fallen | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fallen | aux |
| 13 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 brother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fallen | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 witch | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 witch | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 witch | amod |
| 20 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 power | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect | my brother | into the power of a old witch result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result |
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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