The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 35
“Yes,” answered Ball-Carrier, “it was I who took them.”
Who acts: Ball, mouthful · What happens: answer, be, take · To what, where: Ball, 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 (Ball, mouthful), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Carrier | punct |
| 8 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ball | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 I | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 I | cop |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ball and Carrier | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | mouthful | Ball and Carrier = ball | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | Ball and Carrier = ball | gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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