The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 99
“It is no use trying to frighten me,” replied the tortoise.
Who acts: victor, use, tortoise · What happens: be, try, frighten, reply · To what, where: use, tortoise · 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 (victor, use, 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 | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 use | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 frighten | mark |
| 8 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trying | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 frighten | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tortoise | det |
| 14 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | victor | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | gerund | no use not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | frighten not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | no use not said here | the tortoise = tortoise | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 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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