The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 10
“Well then, let us go round by the bottom,” said a third.
Who acts: us, third · What happens: let, go round, say · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, third), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go round in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | by the bottom; round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bottom=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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