The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 68
“Of course I can,” replied the bear, “what nonsense you talk!
Who acts: bear, you · What happens: reply, nonsense, talk · To what, where: nonsense · 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 (bear, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 can | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bear | det |
| 10 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nonsense | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nonsense | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 nonsense | nsubj |
| 14 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | appos |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 talk | nsubj |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nonsense | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | nonsense in a quote | the bear | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | present | you | nonsense not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient |
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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