The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 12
“Yes, it is quite true what Kisa said,” answered the queen; “I should have liked to see her again.
Who acts: playfellow, Kisa, queen · What happens: be, say, answer, like, see · To what, where: queen · 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 (playfellow, Kisa, queen), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 true | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 true | advmod |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | obj |
| 9 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 liked | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 liked | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 liked | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 liked | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 liked | aux |
| 21 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 liked | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 see | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | playfellow | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Kisa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | like in a quote | should · perfect | Kisa | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Kisa not said here | queen | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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