The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 1

“It was not so difficult after all, you see,” he said, turning to Geirald.

Who acts: you, he · What happens: not be, see, say, turn · To what, where: Geirald · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, he), 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 difficult	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 difficult	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 difficult	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 difficult	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 difficult	advmod
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 difficult	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 difficult	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 difficult	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turning	punct
17	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Geirald	case
19	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turning	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	past			after all	difficult property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	turn	gerund	he not said here	Geirald			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to geirald=Result

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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