The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 90
“Oh, nonsense!” replied the boy angrily, “do as you see.
Who acts: nonsense, you · What happens: reply, do, see · To what, where: boy · 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 (nonsense, 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 | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nonsense | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | nonsense | the boy | angrily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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