The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 100
“No,” replied the boy, “at least I have been obliged to sometimes, but never if there was any food to be had.”
Who acts: boy, food · What happens: reply, oblige, not be, have · To what, where: boy, least · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, food), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obliged | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 obliged | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 least | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 obliged | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 obliged | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 obliged | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 obliged | aux:pass |
| 15 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sometimes | case |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 obliged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 was | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | advcl |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 food | det |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 had | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | aux:pass |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | oblige in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the boy = boy | least | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | any food | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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