The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 112
“We will be ready, your Majesty,” answered Rosald; but Geirald remained silent.
Who acts: We, Rosald, Geirald · What happens: be, answer, remain · 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, Rosald, Geirald), 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 ready | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | parataxis |
| 12 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 remained | cc |
| 15 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 remained | nsubj |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | conj |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remained | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | We | your Majesty obl; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Rosald | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | Geirald | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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