The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 38
“It is, O Sultan; I swear it,” answered she.
Who acts: wooer, I · What happens: be, swear, answer · To what, where: wooer, woman · 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 (wooer, I), 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 | _ | 6 Sultan | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Sultan | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sultan | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sultan | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 Sultan | case |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 swear | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swear | nsubj |
| 9 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sultan | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swear | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swear | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sultan | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | wooer | of Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | I | wooer | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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