The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 48

“It is late,” remarked one of the women at last; “I must go to my mistress.”

Who acts: love, men · What happens: be, remark, go · 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 (love, men), 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 late	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
7	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 late	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 remarked	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 women	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 women	det
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 women	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 late	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mistress	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mistress	nmod:poss
21	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	love		late property	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle	love not said here	one of the women at last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	go in a quote	must	men and maids = man		to my mistress	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mistress=Initial_Location

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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