The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 81

He DID, but was ashamed to say so, and only answered: “Well, I am sure it must be beautiful since you say so, and I shall be smarter than anyone in the whole village.

Who acts: man, I, wrinkle, you · What happens: do, be, say, answer · 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 (man, I, wrinkle, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 DID	nsubj
2	DID	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ashamed	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ashamed	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	cop
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 DID	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ashamed	xcomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 answered	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 answered	advmod
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 DID	parataxis
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	20 sure	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beautiful	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 beautiful	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 beautiful	cop
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sure	ccomp
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 beautiful	advcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	27 say	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smarter	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 smarter	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 smarter	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 smarter	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 smarter	cop
34	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 sure	ccomp
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 anyone	case
36	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 smarter	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 village	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 village	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 village	amod
40	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anyone	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 DID	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	man		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	man not said here	ashamed property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	man not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	I	sure property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	must	wrinkle	beautiful property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	shall	I	than anyone; smart 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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