The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 100
“Well, well, I will see what can be done,” said the wife, “but talking is not good for you.
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, do, say, talk, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 see | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wife | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 good | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 good | cc |
| 21 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 good | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 good | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 good | advmod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 good | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | future | the wife = wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | talk in a quote | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | for you; good property | tree rules |
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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