The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 38
“O most amazingly impudent person,” cried he, “do you not yet repent?”
Who acts: you · What happens: cry, not repent · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 person | case |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 person | amod |
| 4 | amazingly | amazingly | ADV | _ | 5 impudent | advmod |
| 5 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repent | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 repent | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 repent | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 repent | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 repent | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 repent | advmod |
| 17 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 repent | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Prince | of most impudent person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not repent in a quote | present · do-support | you | yet | 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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