The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 40
“My head aches,” he answered; “it aches very badly.”
Who acts: head aches, weeping · What happens: answer, ache · 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 (head aches, weeping), 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 | _ | 4 aches | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aches | compound |
| 4 | aches | ache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aches | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 aches | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 aches | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 aches | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 aches | nsubj |
| 12 | aches | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 badly | advmod |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 aches | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 aches | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 aches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | head aches | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ache in a quote | present | weeping | badly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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