The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 71
“Then you won’t be an old maid either,” answered he.
Who acts: maid · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: old maid, maid · 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 (maid), 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 | _ | 9 maid | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 maid | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 maid | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 maid | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 maid | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 maid | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maid | amod |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 maid | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 maid | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 maid | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | future | maid | a old maid | then | either property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | maid | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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