The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 28
And opening the bag, he cried: “Flack, flick, switch, be quick.”
Who acts: cock, Flack · What happens: open, cry, flick, switch, be · To what, where: bag · 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 (cock, Flack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 2 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bag | det |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opening | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 opening | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flack | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flack | punct |
| 10 | Flack | flack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flick | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flick | punct |
| 12 | flick | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 switch | punct |
| 14 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flick | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quick | punct |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 quick | cop |
| 17 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flick | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flick | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 flick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | cock not said here | the bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flick in a quote | infinitive | Flack | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | switch in a quote | infinitive | Flack not said here | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | Flack not said here | quick property | 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 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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