The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 114
“Not all, grandmother,” answered he; “there are still some who keep away from me and say that I have not fasted long enough.”
Who acts: all, some · What happens: answer, be, keep away, say, not fast · To what, where: boy · 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 (all, some), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grandmother | punct |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 all | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 are | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 are | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 are | expl |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 some | advmod |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 are | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 some | acl:relcl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 keep | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 keep | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 fasted | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fasted | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fasted | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 fasted | advmod |
| 27 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 say | ccomp |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 fasted | advmod |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | all | boy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | some | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep away in a quote | present | from all; away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from i=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | not fast in a quote | present · perfect | all | long property | 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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