The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 85
“No, I am afraid I haven’t,” answered the grouse, and passed on.
Who acts: grouse, I · What happens: be, not have, answer, pass on · 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 (grouse, I), 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 | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 afraid | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 have | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grouse | det |
| 14 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 afraid | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 passed | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the grouse = grouse | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present | the grouse = grouse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the grouse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pass on | participle | I not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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