The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 1
“Very well, my lord,” said the old woman, “I will set off at once for the bridge.”
Who acts: lord · What happens: say, set off · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lord | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lord | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 bridge | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bridge | det |
| 23 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my lord | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set off in a quote | future | my lord = lord | for the bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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