The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 153
“Pivi,” she said, “how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you?”
Who acts: Pivi, you, Kabo · What happens: say, get out, send · To what, where: living tomb, you · 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 (Pivi, you, Kabo), 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 Pivi | punct |
| 2 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pivi | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pivi | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 get | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tomb | det |
| 16 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tomb | amod |
| 17 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sent | obl |
| 20 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tomb | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | iobj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Pivi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get out in a quote | past · do-support | you | the living tomb | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send in a quote | past | Kabo | you | the living tomb | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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