The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 56
“Well, I am sorry for you,” said the woman; “will you come with me, and do what I tell you?”
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: be, say, come, do, tell · To what, where: 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 (woman, you), 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 sorry | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 sorry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | cop |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 do | cc |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the woman = woman | for you; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | you | with the woman = woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the woman = woman | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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