The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 20
“Ah, but I can’t do that,” answered the fox, “my bag is sealed up.
Who acts: fox · What happens: not do, answer, seal up · To what, where: that, bag · 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 (fox), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sealed | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sealed | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bag | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sealed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sealed | aux:pass |
| 20 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 sealed | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | can | the fox = fox | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seal up in a quote | present · passive | my bag | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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