The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 32
“Ah, there is a slit in this one,” cried the servant, shaking the skin; “and here he is.”
Who acts: slit, servant · What happens: be, cry, shake · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slit, servant), 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 | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 slit | det |
| 7 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servant | det |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shaking | punct |
| 17 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 cried | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skin | det |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shaking | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 here | cc |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 is | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 is | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a slit in this one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the servant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the servant not said here | the skin | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | slit | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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