The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 47
“In two minutes they shall be as tight as they ever were!” said Kisa.
Who acts: feet, Kisa · What happens: be, say · 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 (feet, Kisa), 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 | _ | 9 tight | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tight | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tight | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tight | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tight | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 tight | advmod |
| 9 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 were | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 were | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 were | advmod |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tight | advcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 tight | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tight | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | feet = foot | minute | tight property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | feet = foot | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Kisa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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