The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 84
“My name is Hábogi, and Helga must be my wife,” was all he said.
Who acts: name, Helga, Hábogi, My · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Hábogi, wife · 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 (name, Helga, Hábogi, My), 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 | _ | 5 Hábogi | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hábogi | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hábogi | cop |
| 5 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wife | cc |
| 8 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wife | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hábogi | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | cop |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Hábogi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | Helga | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | Hábogi | all, say property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication 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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