The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 30

“I am running away from the mermaid,” replied the boy; but the bee, like the lion and the bear, was one of those people who never listen to the answers to their questions, and only said: “I am hungry.

Who acts: boy, bee, people, I, answers · What happens: run away, reply, be, not listen, say, question · To what, where: one · 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 (boy, bee, people, I), 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	_	4 running	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 running	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 running	aux
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 replied	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 running	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mermaid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mermaid	det
8	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 one	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bee	det
17	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lion	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 lion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lion	det
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bee	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bear	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bear	det
24	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lion	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bee	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 replied	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 people	det
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 listen	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 listen	advmod
33	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 people	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 answers	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 answers	det
36	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 listen	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 questions	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 questions	nmod:poss
39	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 listen	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 said	advmod
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	parataxis
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 hungry	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	48 hungry	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 hungry	nsubj
47	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 hungry	cop
48	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 said	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run away in a quote	present · progressive	the boy = boy		from the mermaid; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mermaid=Trajectory
2	reply speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	past	the bee	one	of that people	tree rules
4	not listen	present	that people		to the answers; to answers's questions	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to answer=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	I		hungry property	tree rules
7	question		answers = answer			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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