The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 50

At these defiant words the chief shouted back, “Welcome, man!

Who acts: chief · What happens: shout back · To what, where: man, defiant words

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 (chief), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
3	defiant	defiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shouted	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	nsubj
7	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 shouted	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
11	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	13 man	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Welcome	punct
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout back speech: express	past	the chief	man		this defiant words			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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