The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 115
“Then you must fast again,” replied the old woman, “and go on fasting till you receive the gifts of all the good spirits.
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: reply, go, receive, gift · To what, where: fasting, gifts, good spirits · 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 (old woman, you), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fast | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fast | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | aux |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 again | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 again | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 again | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fasting | case |
| 18 | fasting | fasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 receive | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 receive | nsubj |
| 21 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gifts | det |
| 23 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 receive | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 spirits | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 spirits | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spirits | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 spirits | amod |
| 28 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gifts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | again | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | the old woman not said here | fasting | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on fasting=Location | ||||
| 3 | receive in a quote | present | you | the gifts of all good spirits | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gift in a quote | all good spirits | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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