The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 7
When the strap was firm again the boy spoke to his snow-shoes and said:
Who acts: strap, boy · What happens: be, speak, say · 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 (strap, boy), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 firm | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strap | det |
| 3 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 firm | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 firm | cop |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spoke | advcl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 firm | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shoes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spoke | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the strap | again | firm property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the boy | to boy's snow shoes | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to shoe=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/7/