The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 69
And what do YOU say?” he added, turning to the second.
Who acts: YOU, best · What happens: say, add, turn · 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, best), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 added | nsubj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 added | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 second | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 second | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | YOU | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | best = good | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | best = good not said here | to the second | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to second=Trajectory |
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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