The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 18
“What did the rose do to the cypress?” she rejoined.
Who acts: rose · What happens: do, rejoin · 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 (rose), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rose | det |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rejoined | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cypress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cypress | det |
| 9 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rejoined | nsubj |
| 13 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · do-support | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rejoin | past | rose | 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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