The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 10
“Is it my fault if you are an idiot?” replied the puma.
Who acts: snake, you, fault · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: fault, idiot, puma · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, you, fault), 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 fault | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 idiot | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 idiot | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 idiot | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 idiot | det |
| 10 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fault | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fault | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 puma | det |
| 15 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | snake | my fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a idiot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | my fault | the puma | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent puma=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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