The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 20
“I don’t like girls who make horrid noises,” said the giant, turning round.
Who acts: I, girls · What happens: not do, make, say, turn round · To what, where: horrid noises, giant · 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 (I, girls), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 girls | case |
| 6 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 do | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 make | nsubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 girls | acl:relcl |
| 9 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noises | amod |
| 10 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 turning | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | I | like girls | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | girls | horrid noises | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | turn round | gerund | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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