The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 6
“That is a dog, prince,” answered the page.
Who acts: That, dog · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: dog, page · 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 (That, dog), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dog | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dog | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dog | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a dog and prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a dog and prince | the page | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent page=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/6/