The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 120
“You have fasted a long time,” said she, “longer than anyone ever fasted before.
Who acts: You, witch · What happens: fast, 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 (You, witch), 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 | _ | 4 fasted | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fasted | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fasted | aux |
| 4 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fasted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasted | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fasted | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fasted | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fasted | punct |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 fasted | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 anyone | case |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 fasted | obl |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 fasted | advmod |
| 18 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 fasted | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fast in a quote | present · perfect | You | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fast in a quote | participle | witch not said here | ever | than anyone; before, 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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