The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 1
“It does not matter a straw how hard the work is,” answered the bear eagerly, “I will do it every bit.”
Who acts: It, work, bear · What happens: not matter, be, answer, do · To what, where: straw, bear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, work, bear), 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 matter | advmod |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 straw | det |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | obj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 matter | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hard | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bear | det |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 15 answered | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 bit | det |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | It | a straw | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the work | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the bear | eagerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | the bear = bear | bear | every bit obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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