The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 46
“Better offer her in marriage to the sun,” answered her husband impatiently.
Who acts: you, husband · What happens: offer, answer · To what, where: place, marriage · 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 (you, husband), 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 | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 2 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 offer | parataxis |
| 3 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offer | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 marriage | case |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offer | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer in a quote | imperative | you not said here | place | marriage | to the sun | tree rules | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | place's husband | impatiently property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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