The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 15
“Have you spent your fortune?” asked the head from its corner, when it saw how sad they looked.
Who acts: you, head, faces · What happens: spend, ask, see, look · To what, where: fortune, corner · 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 (you, head, faces), 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 | _ | 4 spent | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 corner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 corner | acl:relcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 sad | advmod |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend in a quote | present · perfect | you | your fortune | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Asset | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the head | head's corner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | head | sad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look | past | faces = face | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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