The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 7
“Why, it would take us YEARS,” exclaimed another.
Who acts: it · What happens: take, exclaim · To what, where: us, another · 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 (it), 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | YEARS | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | would | it | us | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | another | tree rules |
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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