The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 55
“I feel very much flattered,” replied the sun, who was so busy that he had not the least wish to marry anybody.
Who acts: sun, side · What happens: feel, flatter, reply, be, have, marry · To what, where: least wish, anybody · 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 (sun, side), 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 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 flattered | advmod |
| 6 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 busy | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 busy | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 busy | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 busy | advmod |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sun | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 busy | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 wish | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wish | det |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 wish | amod |
| 23 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 marry | mark |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wish | acl |
| 26 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | the sun = sun | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flatter in a quote | participle | the sun = sun not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the sun | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the sun | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | side | the least wish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | side not said here | anybody | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient |
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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