The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 15
THIS cock and no other—mind what I say,” he went on.
Who acts: I, cock · What happens: mind, say, go on · 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 (I, cock), 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 | THIS | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cock | det |
| 2 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 other | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cock | conj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mind | punct |
| 7 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cock | parataxis |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 say | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cock | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cock | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go on in a quote | past | this cock | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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