The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 40
At her words the husband took courage, and spoke hastily:
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: take, speak, word · To what, where: courage, words · 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 (husband, wife), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 words | nmod:poss |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 spoke | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the husband | courage | wife's words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent courage=Theme at word=Asset | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the husband not said here | hastily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | word | wife | nom word «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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