The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 100
Oh, I was saying nothing,” answered the fox drearily.
Who acts: I, saying · What happens: say, answer · To what, where: nothing, fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, saying), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 saying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | csubj |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 saying | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | drearily | drearily | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | I | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | saying | the fox | drearily property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=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.
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