The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 61
She patted it and said: “Why are you sad, my heart?
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: pat, say, be · To what, where: lightning · 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 (girl, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 patted | nsubj |
| 2 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 patted | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 patted | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sad | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sad | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 sad | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sad | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sad | nsubj |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heart | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sad | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | past | girl | lightning | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | sad 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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