The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 78
The witch was raving and roaring as usual, and said to her brother:
Who acts: witch · What happens: rave, roar, say · To what, where: brother · 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 (witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raving | aux |
| 4 | raving | rave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 roaring | cc |
| 6 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 raving | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 usual | case |
| 8 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 roaring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raving | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 raving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rave speech: other | past · progressive | the witch | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roar | gerund | the witch not said here | as usual | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the witch not said here | princess's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
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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