The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 5
“No,” answered the prince, “I hear nothing but the water rushing; I must go higher still.”
Who acts: prince · What happens: answer, hear, rush, go · To what, where: nothing · 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 (prince), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 hear | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 water | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 16 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 nothing | acl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hear | conj |
| 21 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 still | advmod |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present | the prince = prince | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rush in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | must | the prince = prince | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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