The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 70
“Very good,” said the woman, going out and shutting the door.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, go out, shut · To what, where: door · 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), 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 going | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shutting | cc |
| 13 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 going | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shutting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go out | gerund | the woman not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shut | gerund | the woman not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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