The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 89
“I have been so unlucky, I have never been able to catch one,” replied the tortoise.
Who acts: tortoise · What happens: be, not be, catch, reply · To what, where: one · 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 | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 unlucky | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unlucky | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 unlucky | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 unlucky | advmod |
| 6 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 unlucky | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 unlucky | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tortoise | det |
| 20 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the tortoise = tortoise | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | the tortoise = tortoise | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | the tortoise = tortoise not said here | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the tortoise | vn respond-113 «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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