The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 94
“The garden is wonderful, and the palace the finest in the world,” said he, “so fine, that my servants would cut but a sorry figure in it.
Who acts: garden, servants · What happens: be, say, cut · To what, where: palace · 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 (garden, servants), 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 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonderful | cop |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finest | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finest | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 finest | det |
| 11 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 wonderful | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finest | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fine | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fine | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fine | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 cut | mark |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 servants | nmod:poss |
| 26 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cut | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cut | aux |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fine | conj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 figure | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 figure | det |
| 31 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 figure | amod |
| 32 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cut | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cut | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the garden | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | cut in a quote | would | my servants | palace | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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