The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 88
“Kiss me,” said the Sister of the Sun; and the youth obeyed her, but still without looking up.
Who acts: Sister, youth · What happens: kiss, say, obey, look up · To what, where: Sister · 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 (Sister, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2108): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 2 | Kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Kiss | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sister | det |
| 8 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun | det |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sister | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 obeyed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 obeyed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obeyed | nsubj |
| 16 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 obeyed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 looking | cc |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 looking | advmod |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 looking | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 obeyed | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 looking | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | the Sister of the Sun = sister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Sister of the Sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | obey | past | the youth | Sister | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look up | gerund | the youth not said here | still | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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