The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 1
“I hear nothing,” answered the youth, who did not look happy.
Who acts: youth · What happens: hear, answer, not look · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 look | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 look | advmod |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 youth | parataxis |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present | the youth = youth | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not look | past · do-support | the youth | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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