The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 75
“Good gracious! are YOU here?” exclaimed the fox.
Who acts: YOU, fox · What happens: be, exclaim · 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 (YOU, 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 | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gracious | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | cop |
| 6 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 here | nsubj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gracious | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | YOU | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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