The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 93

“Oh, we can’t turn back,” answered Rosald, “we should be ashamed to look anyone in the face again!

Who acts: we, Rosald · What happens: not turn back, answer, be, look · To what, where: anyone, face · 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 (we, Rosald), 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	_	7 turn	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 turn	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 turn	advmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ashamed	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ashamed	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ashamed	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 ashamed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 ashamed	cop
18	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ashamed	xcomp
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 look	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 face	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	20 look	advmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not turn back in a quote	can	we					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: express	past	Rosald					tree rules
3	is in a quote	should	we				ashamed property	tree rules
4	look in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	anyone	the face	again		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anyone=Attribute

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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