The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 123

“Look, what a figure I am!” he said; but she only told him to climb the tree, as she had told Pivi.

Who acts: figure, woman · What happens: look, say, tell, climb · To what, where: figure, tree, 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 (figure, woman), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Look	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 am	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 figure	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 told	advmod
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 climb	mark
20	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 told	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 climb	advcl
28	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 told	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	figure			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	woman		figure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	woman		Pivi	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pivi=Recipient

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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