The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 15

“Yes,” answered the fox; “it is a long journey to take for such a thing as that, but you know what the miller’s friends are like—so dull and heavy!

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: answer, be, take, know · To what, where: long journey · 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 (fox, 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	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	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 journey	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 journey	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 journey	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 journey	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 journey	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 journey	amod
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 take	mark
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 journey	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 thing	case
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 thing	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thing	det
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 know	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 miller	det
29	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 friends	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 miller	case
31	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 like	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 like	cop
33	like	like	ADP	_	27 what	acl:relcl
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 dull	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 dull	advmod
36	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 know	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heavy	cc
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dull	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	the fox			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	fox	a long journey		tree rules
3	take in a quote	to-infinitive	the fox not said here		for such thing; as a long journey	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as that=Attribute
4	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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