The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 89
“It is very curious, certainly,” said he; “but which end is it that restores people to life?
Who acts: staff, man, end · What happens: be, say · 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 (staff, man, end), 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 | _ | 5 curious | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 curious | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 certainly | punct |
| 7 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 restores | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 restores | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 restores | cc |
| 15 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restores | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 restores | cop |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 restores | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 restores | nsubj |
| 20 | restores | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 restores | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restores | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | staff | certainly, curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | which end | to life; restore property | tree rules |
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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