The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 14
He told her his story from beginning to end, and Lady Latifa[9] replied: “This is folly!
Who acts: brilliance, Lady · What happens: tell, reply, be · To what, where: story, horse, beginning, folly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brilliance, Lady), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 beginning | case |
| 7 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 12 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | Latifa | Latifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lady | flat |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 9 | punct |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Lady | appos |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 9 | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 folly | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 folly | punct |
| 20 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 folly | det |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 folly | cop |
| 22 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | brilliance | brilliance's story | horse | from beginning; to end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | Lady | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this folly | 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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