The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 37
At last he said to himself: “Men are sociable creatures, like bees or ants.
Who acts: gnome, Men · What happens: say, be · To what, where: gnome, last, sociable creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome, Men), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 creatures | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 creatures | punct |
| 9 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 creatures | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 creatures | cop |
| 11 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creatures | amod |
| 12 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bees | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 bees | case |
| 15 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 creatures | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 ants | cc |
| 17 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 creatures | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gnome | gnome | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Men | sociable creatures and bees or ants | 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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