The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 53
“Dear brother,” answered the fox with a sob, “do not blame me for this misfortune.
Who acts: Dear brother · What happens: answer, not blame · To what, where: fox, Dear brother · 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 (Dear brother), 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 | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sob | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sob | det |
| 11 | sob | sob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blame | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 blame | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blame | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 blame | advmod |
| 16 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 blame | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 misfortune | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 misfortune | det |
| 20 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blame | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Dear brother | the fox | with a sob | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Dear brother not said here | Dear brother = brother | for this misfortune | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for misfortune=Attribute |
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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