The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 171
“Nonsense!” said his wife, “what in the world do you mean?”
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you), 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 Nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 mean | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | obl |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Nur's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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