The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 76
“Why should I get up?” asked the man, without moving.
Who acts: man · What happens: get up, ask, move · 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 (man), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moving | punct |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 moving | mark |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | should | the man = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | the man not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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