The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 14

“You look very fine!” said the boy, stopping to admire him, “are you going to the miller’s wedding too?”

Who acts: You, boy, miller · What happens: look, say, stop, admire, go, wed · To what, where: boy, wedding · 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, boy, 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	_	3 look	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopping	punct
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 admire	mark
14	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopping	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 admire	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 wedding	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 miller	det
23	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wedding	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 miller	case
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	obl
26	too	too	ADV	_	20 going	advmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	You			fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	gerund	the boy not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	admire	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	boy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	go in a quote	present · progressive	you		the miller's wedding		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location
6	wed in a quote		the miller				nom wedding «event 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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