The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 62
“I have come to claim my reward,” said the cat.
Who acts: cat, my · What happens: come, claim, say, reward · To what, where: reward · 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 (cat, my), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 claim | mark |
| 6 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 reward | nmod:poss |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claim | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the cat = cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the cat = cat not said here | my reward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reward=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reward in a quote | my | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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