The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 65
But the secretary always brought back the report that he was fat and rosy.
Who acts: secretary · What happens: bring back, be · To what, where: report
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secretary), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 secretary | det |
| 3 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 brought | advmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 report | det |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 fat | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fat | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fat | cop |
| 12 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brought | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rosy | cc |
| 14 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fat | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past | the secretary | the report | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent report=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | secretary | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | secretary not said here | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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