The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 107
“My heart grows lighter as you say that!
Who acts: heart, you · What happens: grow, say · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, you), 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 | _ | 4 grows | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grows | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | present | My heart | light property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=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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