The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 34
“Why did I not give her a kiss?” he said to himself; “I shall never kiss any woman so beautiful.”
Who acts: boy · What happens: not give, say, not kiss · To what, where: kiss, business, boy, woman · 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 (boy), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 give | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kiss | det |
| 9 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 kiss | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 kiss | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 kiss | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 kiss | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 kiss | advmod |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 woman | det |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kiss | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kiss | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | past · do-support | boy | a kiss | business | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | boy | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not kiss in a quote | shall | boy | any woman | beautiful property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-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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