The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 11

“How are we to do that, when the roots have made a deep hole, and above that is a high bank?” replied a fourth.

Who acts: we, that, fourth · What happens: be, make, reply · To what, where: roots, high bank · 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 (we, that, fourth), 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	_	6 do	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	cop
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 replied	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roots	det
11	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	nsubj:pass
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 do	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hole	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hole	amod
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bank	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bank	cc
19	above	above	ADP	_	24 bank	mark
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 bank	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bank	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bank	det
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bank	amod
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hole	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
27	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fourth	det
29	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replied	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we		do property	tree rules
2	make in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the roots		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary hole=Product
3	is a in a quote	present	that	a high bank		tree rules
4	reply speech: ask	past	a fourth			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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