The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 63
“Indeed I am unworthy of anything so charming,” answered the cloud; “but you make a mistake again in what you say.
Who acts: cloud, you · What happens: be, answer, make, say · To what, where: mistake · 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 (cloud, you), 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 | _ | 5 unworthy | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 unworthy | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 unworthy | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unworthy | cop |
| 5 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 unworthy | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 charming | advmod |
| 9 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anything | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unworthy | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unworthy | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cloud | det |
| 14 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mistake | det |
| 21 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 make | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 say | nsubj |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the cloud = cloud | of anything; indeed, unworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the cloud | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | you | a mistake | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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