The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 48
“Well, I WAS thinking of it,” replied the wife, “and as you are of the same mind, we will pay him a visit to-morrow.”
Who acts: wife, you, we · What happens: think, reply, be, pay · To what, where: Husband · 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 (wife, you, we), 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 | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 thinking | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thinking | nsubj |
| 5 | WAS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thinking | aux |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 pay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pay | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 mind | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 mind | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mind | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mind | amod |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mind | punct |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 pay | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 pay | aux |
| 27 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pay | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 visit | det |
| 30 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 morrow | case |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 to | punct |
| 33 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 visit | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 pay | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | the wife = wife | of sun | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | of the same mind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | future | we | Husband | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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