The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 2

“Dear me, how dull, how dreadfully dull I am.

Who acts: lion · What happens: be

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 (lion), 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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dull	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dull	advmod
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dull	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dull	advmod
9	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	10 dull	advmod
10	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dull	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dull	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dull	cop
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the lion = lion					dreadfully, dull 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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