The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 87
“You had better ask her,” replied the man, “she is old enough to give you an answer.”
Who acts: You, man, sister · What happens: have, ask, reply, be, give · To what, where: sister, answer, you · 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 (You, man, 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | xcomp |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | parataxis |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 old | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 answer | det |
| 22 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | sister | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | sister not said here | a answer | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient answer=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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