The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 8

“Not even a page!” answered the echoes.

Who acts: echoes · What happens: answer

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 (echoes), 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 page	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 page	advmod
3	even	even	ADV	_	5 page	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 page	det
5	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 page	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 page	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 echoes	det
10	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the echoes						vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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