The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 108
“Then,” said she, “you must fast ten days more.”
Who acts: many · What happens: say · 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 (many), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 must | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 more | aux |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 must | advmod |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | many | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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