The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 5
“But I never HAD a sister,” answered Ingibjorg, very much puzzled; for she knew nothing of what had taken place so long ago.
Who acts: Ingibjorg · What happens: not have, answer, puzzle, know, take · To what, where: sister, nothing, place · 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 (Ingibjorg), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 HAD | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 HAD | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 HAD | advmod |
| 5 | HAD | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sister | det |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 HAD | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 HAD | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 HAD | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 puzzled | advcl |
| 11 | Ingibjorg | Ingibjorg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 puzzled | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 puzzled | advmod |
| 15 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 puzzled | conj |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 knew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 ago | advmod |
| 28 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 knew | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | past | Ingibjorg | a sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Ingibjorg | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | puzzle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | know | past | Ingibjorg | nothing | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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