The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 48

“In an hour’s time; I have some business to do first,” answered the tortoise.

Who acts: tortoise · What happens: have, do, answer · To what, where: business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortoise), 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	_	17 answered	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 hour	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answered	advcl
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 business	det
11	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 business	acl
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 do	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tortoise	det
19	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the tortoise = tortoise	some business	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the tortoise = tortoise not said here	some business not said here		first property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the tortoise				vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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