The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 15
“No, it is my business, so it is right that I should go,” answered he.
Who acts: counsel, I · What happens: be, go, answer · To what, where: business, boy · 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 (counsel, I), 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 | _ | 7 business | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 business | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 business | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 business | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 business | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 right | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 right | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 business | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 right | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 business | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 business | punct |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | counsel | my business | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | counsel | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | should | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | boy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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