The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 83
And, touching the ball, he just said: “Bear, die!”
Who acts: bear · What happens: touch, say, die · To what, where: ball · 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 (bear), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touching | punct |
| 3 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touching | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touching | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
| 12 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Bear | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | gerund | the ball | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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