The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 69
“Yes, dear lady, I shall do just as you say.”
Who acts: dear lady, you · What happens: do, say · 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 (dear lady, 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 | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 say | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | dear lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | 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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