The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 62
“No, certainly not,” answered the rock; “I don’t know how to walk.”
Who acts: rock · What happens: answer, not know, walk · 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 (rock), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 not | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 walk | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 walk | mark |
| 19 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 walk | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the rock | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the rock = rock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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