The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 8
“Do you really think that would happen?” he gasped.
Who acts: you, jaw · What happens: think, happen, gasp · 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 (you, jaw), 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 gasped | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gasped | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 happen | mark |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 happen | aux |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gasped | nsubj |
| 12 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gasp | past | jaw | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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