The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 80
“Get rid of your only daughter?” they answered, in surprise.
Who acts: men · What happens: get, answer · To what, where: surprise · 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 (men), 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 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Get | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rid | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surprise | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: ask | past | men = man | surprise | tree rules |
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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