The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 50
But the father, who was in a bad temper, only said:
Who acts: father · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bad temper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 temper | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 temper | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 temper | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 temper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 temper | det |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 temper | amod |
| 10 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the father and a bad temper | a bad temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | the father and a bad temper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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