The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 67
“I can’t walk, but I can ROLL,” answered the rock.
Who acts: rock · What happens: not walk, roll, answer · 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 | _ | 5 walk | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 walk | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 walk | advmod |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ROLL | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 ROLL | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ROLL | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ROLL | aux |
| 10 | ROLL | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 walk | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walk | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 walk | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not walk in a quote | can | the rock = rock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roll in a quote | can | the rock = rock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the rock | tree rules |
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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