The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 72
At last she got up, and said to her husband: “I am too tired to finish it to-night, so I shall go to bed, and to-morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.”
Who acts: last, I · What happens: get up, say, be, finish, go, have · To what, where: husband, stoop, bed, cutting · 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 (last, I), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tired | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tired | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 tired | advmod |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 finish | mark |
| 19 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tired | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 finish | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finish | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 have | cc |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 morrow | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 35 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obl |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 have | advmod |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cutting | det |
| 41 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 stitching | cc |
| 43 | stitching | stitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 cutting | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 stitching | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wool's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | finish in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | stoop | night | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | go in a quote | shall | I | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | shall | I | the cutting | to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutting=Patient | |||
| 7 | stitch in a quote | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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