The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 42
“I DID go, and made many prisoners,” retorted the turtle angrily, drawing out his knife.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: go, make, retort, draw out · To what, where: many prisoners, knife · 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | DID | did | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 retorted | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | ccomp |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prisoners | amod |
| 9 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 12 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 turtle | det |
| 14 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retorted | obj |
| 15 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 12 retorted | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawing | punct |
| 17 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 retorted | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 drawing | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | the turtle = turtle | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | the turtle = turtle not said here | many prisoners | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product | ||||
| 3 | retort speech: other | past | the turtle | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | draw out | gerund | the turtle not said here | turtle's knife | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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