The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 56
“Then,” replied Ring, “let us decide on this day fortnight.
Who acts: Ring, us · What happens: reply, let, decide · To what, where: us · 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 (Ring, us), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 fortnight | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fortnight | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fortnight | compound |
| 15 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decide | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Ring | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | decide in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | fortnight | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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