The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 47
“I do not care where I go,” answered the young man; “what do you think?”
Who acts: young man, you · What happens: not care, go, answer, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 think | obj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 care | conj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | the young man = man | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the young man = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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