The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 3
“Oh, I did not mean four days, but four YEARS,” answered the turtle, hastily; “whatever happens I shall be back by then.”
Who acts: turtle, whatever, girl · What happens: not mean, answer, happen, be · 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 (turtle, whatever, girl), 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 | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mean | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 answered | cc |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 YEARS | nummod |
| 13 | YEARS | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 YEARS | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 YEARS | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 turtle | det |
| 18 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hastily | punct |
| 20 | hastily | hastily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answered | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 back | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 back | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 back | cop |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 happens | advmod |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 then | case |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 happens | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean in a quote | past · do-support | the turtle = turtle | day | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the turtle | year | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | present | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by then=Location | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | the girl = girl | back property | 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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