The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 19
“Never yet,” replied the king, “has any man come out from that question alive.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: reply, have, come out · To what, where: question · 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 (king, man), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 question | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 question | det |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 come | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | yet | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come out in a quote | infinitive | any man | that question | alive, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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