The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 8
So she spoke cheering words to her donkey, who brayed in reply, and the two pushed steadily on.
Who acts: princess, donkey · What happens: speak, cheer, bray, push · To what, where: cheering words, reply · 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 (princess, donkey), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cheering | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoke | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 donkey | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 donkey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brayed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brayed | nsubj |
| 11 | brayed | bray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 donkey | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 reply | case |
| 13 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brayed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 two | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 spoke | obl |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 two | acl |
| 19 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 20 on | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 pushed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | princess | cheering words | to princess's donkey; the two obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cheer | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bray | past | princess's donkey | reply | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | push | participle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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