The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 113
Then the negro said to her: ‘How now, ugly one and shaven head!
Who acts: negro · What happens: say · To what, where: Gul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (negro), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:455): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 negro | det |
| 3 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 now | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 now | punct |
| 9 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 now | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 now | vocative |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 head | cc |
| 15 | shaven | shaven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the negro | Gul | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to her=Recipient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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