The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 142

“No,” answered the old woman, “we are not eating anything.”

Who acts: old woman, we · What happens: answer, not eat · To what, where: anything · 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 (old woman, we), 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 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eating	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 eating	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eating	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eating	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eating	advmod
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	ccomp
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 eating	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 anything	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the old woman						tree rules
2	not eat in a quote	present · progressive	we	anything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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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