The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 76
“Will you obey me again?” said the woman.
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: obey, say · To what, where: woman · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | nsubj |
| 4 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 obey | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | future | you | the woman = woman | again | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the woman | 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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