The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 13
“So was mine till my father smashed a pailful of cranberries, and rubbed my eyes with them,” replied the wolverine.
Who acts: wolverine · What happens: be, smash, rub, reply · To what, where: wolverine, pailful, eyes · 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 (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 | _ | 8 smashed | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 mine | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 smashed | parataxis |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | nmod |
| 8 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pailful | det |
| 10 | pailful | pailful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smashed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cranberries | case |
| 12 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pailful | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rubbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rubbed | cc |
| 15 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smashed | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rubbed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rubbed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rubbed | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wolverine | det |
| 24 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 replied | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the wolverine = wolverine | till my father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smash in a quote | past | a pailful of cranberries | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pailful=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub in a quote | past | my eyes | with eyes = eye | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the wolverine | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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