The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 104
He said truly that I cannot escape him.”
Who acts: hole, I · What happens: say, not escape · To what, where: hole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 escape | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 escape | advmod |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | hole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not escape | can | I | hole | truly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location |
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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