The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 39

“So am I,” answered the wife.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: I, wife · 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), 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 answered	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 I	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 I	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		I					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	I		the wife				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality

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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