The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 31
Here the king shouted in wonderment: “Explain yourself, young man!
Who acts: king · What happens: shout, explain · To what, where: wonderment, 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 (king), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wonderment | case |
| 6 | wonderment | wonderment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Explain | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Explain | punct |
| 9 | Explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shouted | conj |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 Explain | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Explain | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | the king | wonderment; here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the king not said here | yourself | young man obl | 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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