The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 10
“I can’t see so far,” answered the bear, now climbing down altogether.
Who acts: bear · What happens: not see, answer, climb down · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbing | punct |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 climbing | advmod |
| 15 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 climbing | advmod |
| 17 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 15 climbing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | can | the bear = bear | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the bear | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | climb down | gerund | the bear not said here | now | altogether, down property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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