The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 82
“Where are you going?” said he, looking at the bear in surprise, for he was an old acquaintance, and not generally so smart.
Who acts: you, way · What happens: go, say, look, be · 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 (you, way), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 surprise | case |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 acquaintance | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 acquaintance | case |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 acquaintance | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 acquaintance | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 acquaintance | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 acquaintance | amod |
| 23 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smart | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smart | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 smart | advmod |
| 27 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 29 smart | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 smart | advmod |
| 29 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | way not said here | in surprise; at the bear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | way | for a old acquaintance | 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.
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