The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 35
“Are you mad, old woman?” said the sultan, staring at her.
Who acts: you, sultan · What happens: be, say, stare · 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, sultan), 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 mad | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mad | vocative |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sultan | det |
| 12 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 staring | punct |
| 14 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 staring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | old woman vocative; mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | the sultan not said here | at woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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