The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 29
But she said merely: “Explain yourself.”
Who acts: person · What happens: say, explain · To what, where: yourself · 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 (person), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Explain | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Explain | punct |
| 7 | Explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 Explain | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Explain | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | person | merely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | yourself | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |
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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