The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 111
“I am flying from the mermaid,” the prince answered, in a quaking voice.
Who acts: prince · What happens: fly, answer · To what, where: quaking voice · 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 (prince), 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 flying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mermaid | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mermaid | det |
| 7 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | quaking | quaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voice | compound |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | present · progressive | the prince = prince | from the mermaid | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mermaid=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | a quaking voice | 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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