The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 37
“You broke your promise,” answered she.
Who acts: wife, You, your · What happens: break, answer, promise · To what, where: promise, wife · 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 (wife, You, your), 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 | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 promise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | past | wife | your promise | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | You not said here | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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