The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 14
But I have eaten it!” exclaimed the baker in dismay.
Who acts: I, fish · What happens: eat, exclaim · To what, where: sardine, baker, dismay
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fish), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baker | det |
| 10 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 dismay | case |
| 12 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 baker | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | I | sardine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | fish not said here | the baker | dismay | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baker=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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