The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 76
One day her father said to her: ‘Sweetheart, for some time I have noticed that your beauty is not what it was.
Who acts: father, I, beauty · What happens: say, notice, not be · To what, where: arrow · 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 (father, I, beauty), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sweetheart | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sweetheart | punct |
| 10 | Sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | aux |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 what | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 what | advmod |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 noticed | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | arrow's father | arrow | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | notice | present · perfect | I | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | your beauty | tree rules |
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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