The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 61
“Tell my master he shall be obeyed,” replied Ali; “it shall be done this moment.”
Who acts: you, Ali · What happens: tell, obey, reply, do · To what, where: master, hill · 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, Ali), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obeyed | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 obeyed | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 12 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | shall · passive | master | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Ali | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | shall · passive | hill | moment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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