The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 3
“That is all right,” said the fox at last, “I see I was mistaken in you.
Who acts: That, fox · What happens: be, say, see, mistake · To what, where: last, fox · 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 (That, 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 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 mistaken | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 19 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 mistaken | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | the fox = fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mistake in a quote | past · passive | the fox = fox | in you | tree rules |
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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