The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 70
“Try mine,” said the eel, who had wriggled to the front.
Who acts: eel · What happens: try, say, wriggle · To what, where: eel · 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 (eel), 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 | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Try | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eel | det |
| 8 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wriggled | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wriggled | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wriggled | aux |
| 12 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 eel | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 front | det |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wriggled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | the eel = eel | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wriggle | past · perfect | the eel | to the front | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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