The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 88
“I am sorry to say I have only those I am using,” replied the bee.
Who acts: I, bee · What happens: be, say, have, use, reply · To what, where: those · 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 (I, bee), 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 | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | xcomp |
| 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 say | ccomp |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 those | advmod |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 using | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 using | aux |
| 13 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bee | det |
| 18 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | the bee | vn respond-113 «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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