The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 9
“I will be back in a moment, good mother,” said he.
Who acts: master · What happens: be, say · 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 (master), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 back | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 back | cop |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | amod |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moment | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moment | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 back | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | master | moment | back property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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