The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 35
She answered: “You may be satisfied, uncle, but I am not.
Who acts: queen, You · What happens: answer, be · 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 (queen, You), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 satisfied | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 satisfied | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 satisfied | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 satisfied | cop |
| 8 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 uncle | punct |
| 10 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfied | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 am | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 am | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 am | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 am | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | You | satisfied property | 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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