The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 20
“Ah, well, such things have occurred, I know,” replied the fox gravely.
Who acts: fox · What happens: occur, know, reply · To what, where: such things · 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), 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 occurred | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 occurred | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 occurred | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 occurred | aux |
| 9 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 occurred | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurred | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 15 replied | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur in a quote | present · perfect · passive | such things | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the fox = fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | gravely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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