The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 2

“Oh, just to the miller’s marriage,” answered the wolf, as the bear had done before him.

Who acts: marriage, miller · What happens: answer, do, marry · To what, where: wolf, bear

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 (marriage, 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	_	9 marriage	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 marriage	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	9 marriage	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marriage	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 miller	case
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 marriage	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 marriage	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wolf	det
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 done	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 answered	parataxis
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the miller's marriage	the wolf		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	do	past · perfect · passive		the bear	before marriage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	marry in a quote		the miller			nom marriage «state 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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