The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 34
“Oh, here is the turtle,” whispered the husband hurriedly; “what is to be done now?”
Who acts: turtle · What happens: be, whisper, do · To what, where: turtle, husband · 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), 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 turtle | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 turtle | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 turtle | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turtle | det |
| 7 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turtle | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 turtle | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obj |
| 13 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 10 whispered | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 done | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 whispered | parataxis |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 done | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the turtle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: ask | past | the turtle | the husband | hurriedly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · passive | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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