The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 58
“That is exactly why I am quite safe,” replied the reindeer.
Who acts: That, reindeer · What happens: be, reply · 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 (That, reindeer), 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 | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 why | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 why | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 why | advmod |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 replied | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 safe | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 safe | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 safe | advmod |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 why | advcl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 safe | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 safe | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reindeer | det |
| 14 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | exactly, why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the reindeer = reindeer | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the reindeer | vn respond-113 «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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