The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 100
“Oh, good lady,” cried Pivi, “how kind you are!”
Who acts: good lady, you · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Pivi · 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 (good lady, you), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 kind | advmod |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kind | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kind | cop |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | good lady | Pivi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pivi=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | kind 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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