The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 50
“It is not necessary,” answered the prince, “this bench is good enough for me.
Who acts: prince, bench · What happens: not be, answer, be · 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 (prince, bench), 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 necessary | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 necessary | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 necessary | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 necessary | advmod |
| 5 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 necessary | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bench | det |
| 14 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 necessary | conj |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this bench | for love; enough, good property | tree rules |
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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