The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 71
“No, thank you,” replied the fox again, “I should slip over your head and be drowned.”
Who acts: fox · What happens: thank, reply, slip, drown · To what, where: you, head · 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 replied | 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 replied | 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 | replied | reply | 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 replied | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slip | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 slip | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 slip | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slip | aux |
| 16 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slip | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drowned | cc |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 drowned | aux:pass |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 slip | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | 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 | reply speech: assert | past | the fox | again | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | slip in a quote | should | the fox = fox | your head | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | drown in a quote | infinitive · passive | the fox = fox not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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