The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 99
“Nuts for you?” said the woman, “there are two wives for you, Pivi, take them to your house.”
Who acts: Nuts, two wives · What happens: say, be, take · To what, where: nuts, house · 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 (Nuts, two wives), 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 Nuts | punct |
| 2 | Nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Nuts | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuts | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuts | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 are | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 are | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 are | expl |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 wives | nummod |
| 15 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 are | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wives | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Pivi | punct |
| 19 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wives | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 are | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nuts for you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | two wives for you Pivi | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | two wives for you Pivi not said here | nuts = nut | your house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |
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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