The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 70
“Thakane,” said the parents, severely, when they reached home panting from the heat of the sun, “what have you been doing?
Who acts: Thakane, parents, sun · What happens: say, reach, pant, do, heat · To what, where: parents, heat · 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, parents, sun), 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 | _ | 2 Thakane | punct |
| 2 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thakane | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thakane | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parents | det |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 severely | punct |
| 9 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 reached | advmod |
| 15 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 reached | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 heat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heat | det |
| 18 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 panting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heat | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 doing | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 doing | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 have | obj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 doing | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 doing | aux |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 panting | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Thakane | the parents | severely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parent=Topic | |||
| 2 | reach | past | parents = parent | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pant | gerund | parents = parent not said here | the heat of the sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | parents = parent not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | heat | the sun | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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