The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 100
“Well, no,” replied the man-brother.
Who acts: man brother · What happens: reply
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man brother), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Well | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man brother | 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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