The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 91
“That was rather clumsy of you,” said he, standing up naked in his flesh.
Who acts: That, Wolverine · What happens: be, say, stand up · To what, where: flesh · 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 (That, 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 | _ | 5 clumsy | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 clumsy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clumsy | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 clumsy | advmod |
| 5 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clumsy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clumsy | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clumsy | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 standing | punct |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 standing | compound:prt |
| 15 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 standing | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flesh | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | That | of you; clumsy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wolverine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand up | gerund | Wolverine not said here | Wolverine's flesh | naked property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in flesh=Location |
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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