The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 7
“Cousin,” he whispered very low, “there is someone coming who will take the knapsack away from me.
Who acts: Cousin, someone · What happens: whisper, be, come, take · To what, where: knapsack · 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 (Cousin, someone), 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 | _ | 2 Cousin | punct |
| 2 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cousin | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cousin | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 whispered | nsubj |
| 6 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 low | advmod |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whispered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whispered | parataxis |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 is | nsubj |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 someone | acl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 coming | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knapsack | det |
| 19 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Cousin | low property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | someone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | the knapsack | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme |
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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