The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 7
“What a lovely bracelet that would make for your daughter, friend stag! said he.
Who acts: lovely bracelet · What happens: make, say · 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 (lovely bracelet), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 bracelet | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bracelet | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bracelet | amod |
| 5 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bracelet | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stag | punct |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stag | compound |
| 14 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bracelet | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | would | what lovely bracelet | for your daughter and friend stag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for daughter=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | what lovely bracelet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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