The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 1

“Oh, I can show you the way!” said the fox, who was really very good-natured.

Who acts: fox · What happens: show, say, be · To what, where: way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	_	6 show	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 show	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 show	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 show	aux
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 show	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 natured	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 natured	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 natured	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	22 natured	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	22 natured	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 natured	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
22	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fox	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	can	the fox = fox	the way	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
2	say speech: express	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the fox			natured property	tree rules

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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