The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 99
“Did you catch the deer for me?” asked the boy-brother, springing up.
Who acts: boy brother · What happens: catch, ask, spring up · To what, where: deer, boy brother · 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 (boy brother), 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 catch | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deer | det |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 springing | punct |
| 17 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 springing | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | past · do-support | the boy brother = brother | the deer | for me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent deer=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the boy brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spring up | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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