The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 34
“Was it you who took my gold and bridge?” asked the Bad One.
Who acts: mouthful, you, Bad One · What happens: be, take, ask · To what, where: you, gold · 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 (mouthful, you, Bad One), 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 | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 you | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gold | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bridge | cc |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 One | det |
| 15 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 One | amod |
| 16 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | mouthful | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | you | my gold and bridge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Bad One | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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