The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 93
“He is upstairs; you had better ask him,” answered the woman.
Who acts: husband, you, woman · What happens: be, have, ask, answer · To what, where: husband · 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 (husband, you, woman), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | parataxis |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | xcomp |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ask | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | husband | upstairs property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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