The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 21
The brother said he could if they would bring him the duck and a knife.
Who acts: brother, alas · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: duck, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, alas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bring | aux |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knife | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 knife | det |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 duck | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | would | alas = ala | the duck and a knife | brother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination duck=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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