The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 17
“Here is a man who boasts that he can do wonderful tricks,” said she, “better even than the Red Knight’s!
Who acts: man · What happens: be, boast, do, say · To what, where: wonderful tricks · 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 (man), 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 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 boasts | nsubj |
| 7 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 boasts | ccomp |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tricks | amod |
| 13 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 boasts | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 better | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 Knight | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 Knight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Knight | det |
| 24 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Knight | flat |
| 25 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 better | obl |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Knight | case |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | boast speech: other in a quote | present | a man | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | man | wonderful tricks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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