The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 114
“Yes, it fits very well,” said he, “and you have sewn it very neatly.
Who acts: coat, Wolverine · What happens: fit, say, sew · To what, where: coat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, Wolverine), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 fits | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fits | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fits | nsubj |
| 5 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 fits | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fits | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fits | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sewn | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sewn | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sewn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sewn | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 sewn | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sewn | aux |
| 17 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sewn | obj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 neatly | advmod |
| 20 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 17 sewn | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit in a quote | present | coat | well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | sew in a quote | present · perfect | Wolverine | coat | neatly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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