The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 122
“Yes, grandmother,” answered the boy, “they have all come, and have given me their gifts.”
Who acts: grandmother, all, spirits · What happens: answer, come, give, gift · To what, where: boy, gifts, grandmother · 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 (grandmother, all, spirits), 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 grandmother | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 grandmother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 given | cc |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 given | iobj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | grandmother | the boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · perfect | spirits's gifts | grandmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gift in a quote | spirits = spirit | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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