The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 53
“Just warming some water,” she answered.
Who acts: woman · What happens: warm, answer · To what, where: water · 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 (woman), 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 warming | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 warming | advmod |
| 3 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warming | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 warming | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 warming | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm in a quote | gerund | woman not said here | some water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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