The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 68
“No, thank you,” answered the fox, “your back is much too weak for me.
Who acts: fox, back · What happens: thank, answer, be · To what, where: you · 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, back), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | 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 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weak | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 weak | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weak | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 weak | cop |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 weak | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 weak | advmod |
| 18 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 weak | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the fox not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | your back | for the fox = fox; weak property | 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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