The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 113
“How can we possibly fight against a giant that has killed fifty knights?” cried Geirald, when they were outside the castle.
Who acts: we, Geirald, parents · What happens: fight, kill, cry, be · To what, where: giant · 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, Geirald, parents), 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 | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 fight | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fight | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 6 fight | advmod |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | advcl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 giant | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 giant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 knights | nummod |
| 14 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fight | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 castle | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 castle | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 castle | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 castle | cop |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight in a quote | can | we | against a giant; possibly property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a giant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer knight=Result | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Geirald | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | parents = parent | outside the castle | tree rules |
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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