The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 79
“Ah, what did I tell you?” cried the father.
Who acts: father · What happens: tell, cry · To what, where: you · 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 (father), 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 | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 tell | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | the father = father | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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