The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 89

Such talk was very unlike Julia; but before he could collect his senses the girl spoke again:

Who acts: Julia, Such talk, girl · What happens: be, collect, sense, speak · 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 (Julia, Such talk, girl), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Julia	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	6 Julia	advmod
5	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	6 Julia	case
6	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 collect	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 collect	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 collect	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 collect	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 collect	aux
12	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 senses	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 senses	nmod:poss
14	senses	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spoke	nsubj
17	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 senses	ccomp
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 spoke	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			unlike Julia	tree rules
2	collect	could	Julia			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	sense	present	Such talk not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	past	the girl	again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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