The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90
“He shall be obeyed,” answered Hassan.
Who acts: Hassan · What happens: obey, answer · To what, where: master · 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 (Hassan), 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 obeyed | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 obeyed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 answered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obeyed | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obeyed | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | shall · passive | master | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Hassan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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