The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 41
“That is so; all happened as you have told it!”
Who acts: That · What happens: be, happen, tell · To what, where: you, story · 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 (That), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | parataxis |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happened | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | That | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | past | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=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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