The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 43
“I am Signy, the king’s daughter,” was the reply.
Who acts: Signy · What happens: be · To what, where: Signy, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy), 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 Signy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Signy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Signy | cop |
| 4 | Signy | Signy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reply | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Signy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Signy | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Signy | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reply | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reply | det |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Signy and the king's daughter = signy | Signy and the king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | Signy and the king's daughter | the reply | 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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