The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 77
“Your son has carried out my wishes very nicely,” he said.
Who acts: spadeful, my · What happens: carry out, say, wish · To what, where: son · 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 (spadeful, my), 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 | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 carried | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 nicely | advmod |
| 10 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Your son | nicely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | spadeful | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | my | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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