The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 26
“Why it is hardly worth calling a tail!” said he.
Who acts: tail, bear · What happens: be, call, say · To what, where: tail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail, bear), 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 worth | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 worth | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worth | cop |
| 5 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 6 worth | advmod |
| 6 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 worth | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tail | det |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 worth | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | tail | hardly, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | gerund | tail not said here | a tail | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | bear | 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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