The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 90
And when the rabbit heard that, he cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.”
Who acts: rabbit, Koane, ogre · What happens: hear, cry, be, eat · To what, where: Wretched man, 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 (rabbit, Koane, ogre), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rabbit | det |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | Wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 you | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cried | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ogre | det |
| 20 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eat | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 eat | aux |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 daughter | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 daughter | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 daughter | advmod |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 daughter | amod |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 daughter | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the rabbit | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Koane | Wretched man | your beautiful daughter obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | rabbit | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | should | the ogre | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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