The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 63
“Certainly, kind lady,” said Pivi, “I will lie as still as can be.”
Who acts: kind lady · What happens: say, lie · 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 (kind lady), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 lady | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lie | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 lie | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lie | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lie | aux |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 14 lie | advmod |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 . | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 . | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | kind lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | future | kind lady = lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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