The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 8
“Nothing but the water,” repeated the youth.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: repeat · To what, where: youth
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 (Nothing), 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 | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 water | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nothing | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Nothing | the youth | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality |
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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