The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 61
“Oh, well, we will speak to the cloud,” said the mother.
Who acts: we, mother · What happens: speak, say · 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 (we, mother), 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 speak | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 speak | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 speak | aux |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cloud | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloud | det |
| 11 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speak | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speak | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 speak | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | future | we | to the cloud | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cloud=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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