The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 94
The old man returned the greeting graciously, and asked: “How fare you?
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: return, ask, fare · To what, where: greeting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 greeting | det |
| 6 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obj |
| 7 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 fare | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fare | punct |
| 13 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fare | advmod |
| 14 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fare | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the old man | the greeting | graciously property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fare in a quote | you | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/94/