The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 48
After a while Thakane said to him: “It is getting hot, had you better drive out the cattle now?”
Who acts: Thakane, corner, Nonsense · What happens: say, get, have, drive out · To what, where: Nonsense, cattle · 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 (Thakane, corner, Nonsense), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 had | advmod |
| 18 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 drive | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cattle | det |
| 21 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drive | obj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 drive | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 drive | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Thakane | Nonsense | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · progressive | corner | hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Thakane not said here | Nonsense | well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | drive out in a quote | infinitive | Nonsense not said here | the cattle | now | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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