The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 60
And as he entered he added: “Here is a letter from your sister and—can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”
Who acts: man, you · What happens: enter, add, be, tell · To what, where: letter, anything, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 added | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 entered | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 added | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 added | nsubj |
| 6 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 letter | csubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 added | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Here | punct |
| 9 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 added | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 letter | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sister | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letter | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sister | cc |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 letter | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sister | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sister | det |
| 25 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anything | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Sun | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sun | det |
| 28 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sister | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | add speech: ask | past | man | here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a letter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | anything | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic |
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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