The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 83
“Oh, just to the miller’s marriage,” answered the bear carelessly.
Who acts: marriage, miller · What happens: answer, marry · To what, where: bear
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 (marriage, miller), 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 | _ | 9 marriage | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 marriage | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 marriage | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 marriage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 miller | det |
| 7 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 miller | case |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 marriage | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 marriage | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the miller's marriage | the bear | carelessly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bear=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | marry in a quote | the miller | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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