The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 44
“Reach up to the stars is MY motto,” cried the lady one day, when she was in a greater passion than usual.
Who acts: stars, lady · What happens: reach up, be, cry · To what, where: greater passion · 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 (stars, lady), 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 | _ | 2 Reach | punct |
| 2 | Reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Reach | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 motto | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 motto | det |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 motto | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 motto | cop |
| 8 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 motto | nmod:poss |
| 9 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Reach | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reach | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Reach | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passion | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 passion | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passion | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 passion | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 passion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 passion | det |
| 23 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 passion | amod |
| 24 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 usual | case |
| 26 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 passion | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach up in a quote | infinitive | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | stars | to MY motto | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the lady one day and a greater passion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | lady | a greater passion | than usual | 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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