The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 37
So she said haughtily: “Prince! you have not answered my riddle.”
Who acts: heart, my · What happens: say, not answer, riddle · To what, where: Prince · 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 (heart, my), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 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 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 answered | advmod |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | heart | haughtily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme riddle=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | riddle in a quote | my | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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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