The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 120
“You see, my dear wife, that I was right,” he said at last.
Who acts: You, Cutter · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: dear wife, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Cutter), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 right | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | my dear wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Cutter | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Cutter | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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