The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 90
“I should be SO glad if you would tell me where I could get a pair of eyes,” said the fox.
Who acts: fox, you · What happens: be, tell, get, say · To what, where: fox, pair · 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, you), 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 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | SO | so | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | ccomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 get | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pair | det |
| 17 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pair | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fox | det |
| 24 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | the fox = fox | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | the fox = fox | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | could | the fox = fox | a pair of eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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