The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 55
“It was Kabo who broke my leg at the slinging game,” said Pivi.
Who acts: state, Kabo, Pivi · What happens: be, break, sling, say · To what, where: Kabo, leg, slinging game · 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 (state, Kabo, Pivi), 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 | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Kabo | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kabo | cop |
| 4 | Kabo | Kabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 leg | nmod:poss |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 game | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 11 | slinging | sling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 game | amod |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | state | Kabo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | past | Kabo | my leg | the slinging game | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | |||
| 3 | sling in a quote | gerund | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Pivi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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