The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 41

“Be it so,” answered the crafty maiden.

Who acts: crafty maiden · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crafty maiden), 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	_	2 Be	punct
2	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Be	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 Be	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
9	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 maiden	amod
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	infinitive		love					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the crafty maiden						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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