The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 149

“Yes, you are,” answered the old woman.

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: be, answer · 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, old woman), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 are	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 are	nsubj
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	you						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the old woman						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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