The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 9
“Yes, to be sure, I do,” answered the boy.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, do, answer · 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 (boy), 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 | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the boy = boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the boy | tree rules |
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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