The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 25
“What nonsense are you saying?” said the prince, and other such words.
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: say · To what, where: other such words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (you, prince), 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 | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 saying | obj |
| 3 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 saying | nsubj |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 words | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 words | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the prince | other such words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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