The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 77
“Who IS Hábogi?” asked her father and sisters; “We never heard of such a person.”
Who acts: Hábogi, We · What happens: be, ask, not hear · To what, where: Hábogi, father · 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 (Hábogi, We), 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 | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Hábogi | nsubj |
| 3 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Hábogi | cop |
| 4 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hábogi | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hábogi | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sisters | cc |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 father | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 heard | advmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 person | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Hábogi | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hábogi | Hábogi's father and sisters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not hear in a quote | past | We | of such person | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of person=Stimulus |
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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