The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 104
The cat said nothing, but he did not feel that he loved his big brother.
Who acts: cat, bear · What happens: say, not feel, love · To what, where: nothing, big brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cat, bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 feel | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 feel | advmod |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 loved | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not feel | past · do-support | bear | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love | past | bear | bear's big brother | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
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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