The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 41
“Oh, Koane,” cried his sister, “you know that we are forbidden to touch that tree.
Who acts: sister · What happens: cry, know, forbid, touch · To what, where: sister, we, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Koane | Koane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 forbidden | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 forbidden | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 17 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 touch | mark |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forbidden | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Koane's sister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Koane's sister = sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | forbid in a quote | present · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | touch in a quote | to-infinitive | that tree | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme |
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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