The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 52
“We will talk about that by-and-by,” said the cat, as she made her best bow, and turned her horse’s head.
Who acts: We, cat · What happens: talk, say, make, turn · To what, where: best bow, head · 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 (We, cat), 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 | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 talk | obl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 by | cc |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 by | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 bow | amod |
| 23 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 horse | nmod:poss |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | future | We | about that | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | cat | cat's best bow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | cat not said here | cat's horse's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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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