The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 20
“You must call me the Lady Berberisca,” she answered, sharply; “and this is my castle, to which I bid you welcome.
Who acts: You, harm, this · What happens: call, answer, be, bid · To what, where: harm, castle, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, harm, this), 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lady | det |
| 7 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 call | xcomp |
| 8 | Berberisca | Berberisca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lady | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sharply | punct |
| 14 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 castle | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 castle | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 castle | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 castle | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 castle | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 castle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bid | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 bid | obl |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bid | nsubj |
| 26 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 castle | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 bid | obj |
| 28 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bid | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | must | You | harm | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | harm | sharply property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | my castle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bid in a quote | past | harm | you | to my castle; welcome property | tree rules |
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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