The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 44
“What brings these scourges of heaven here?” cried the negroes.
Who acts: negroes · What happens: bring, cry · To what, where: scourges · 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 (negroes), 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 | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 scourges | det |
| 5 | scourges | scourge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brings | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heaven | case |
| 7 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scourges | nmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brings | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 negroes | det |
| 13 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | this scourges of heaven | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scourge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the negroes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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