The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 92

“That old woman’s son is certainly all-powerful,” cried he; “what shall I bid him do now?”

Who acts: son · What happens: be, cry, bid, do · 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 (son), 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	_	11 powerful	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 woman	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 powerful	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 powerful	cop
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	11 powerful	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 powerful	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
11	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cried	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 powerful	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 powerful	punct
14	cried	cry	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 cried	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bid	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 bid	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 shall	obj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bid	nsubj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bid	nsubj
21	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bid	obj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bid	xcomp
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 do	advmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that old woman's son			certainly, powerful property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	son				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bid in a quote	past		son			tree rules
4	do in a quote	infinitive			now		vn act-114-1 «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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