The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 38
“You said you would be back soon, and it is more than a year since you went!
Who acts: You, promise · What happens: say, be, go · 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 (You, promise), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 back | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 back | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 back | cop |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 back | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 more | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 said | nsubj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | advcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | you | back, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | promise | year | more property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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