The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 93
“Oh, bad; very bad indeed,” answered he; “I have not slept for a moment.
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, not sleep · To what, where: work · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 bad | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bad | conj |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 slept | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 slept | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 slept | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 slept | advmod |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 bad | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | work | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not sleep in a quote | present · perfect | I | moment | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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