The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 29
“You have done what I expected you to do,” said he, “and now, choose your reward.”
Who acts: You, Geirald, your · What happens: do, expect, say, choose, reward · To what, where: you, reward · 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, Geirald, your), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 expected | nsubj |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 expected | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expected | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 choose | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 choose | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 now | punct |
| 20 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 reward | nmod:poss |
| 22 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choose | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | expect in a quote | past | Geirald | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Geirald | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | choose in a quote | infinitive | your reward | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reward in a quote | your | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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