The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 10
“At any rate you can hear now?” she said again.
Who acts: you, mermaid · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: rate · 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 (you, mermaid), 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 | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 rate | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 rate | det |
| 4 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 hear | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | can | you | any rate | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | mermaid | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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