The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 93
“I can keep up with the best of them,” replied the turtle, tossing his head.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: keep up, reply, toss · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle), 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 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 keep | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 best | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 best | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 turtle | det |
| 15 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tossing | punct |
| 17 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tossing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up in a quote | can | the turtle = turtle | good property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the turtle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | toss | gerund | the turtle not said here | camp's head | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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