The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 32
“Do as I bid you,” replied the head; “it is my will.”
Who acts: head · What happens: do, bid, reply · To what, where: you · 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 (head), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 bid | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 will | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 will | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 will | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 will | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 will | nmod:poss |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 will | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | past | the head = head | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the head | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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