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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 64

“Yes, I will, though you have tried to kill me,” answered Ball-Carrier, throwing the bridge across the water as he spoke.

Who acts: you, Ball, Carrier · What happens: try, kill, answer, throw, speak · To what, where: Ball, bridge, water · 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 (you, Ball, Carrier), 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

punctdiscoursepunctnsubjauxpunctmarknsubjauxadvclmarkxcompobjpunctpunctobjpunctconjpunctadvcldetobjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvclpunctroot“PUNCTYesINTJ,PUNCTIPRONwillAUX,PUNCTthoughSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXtriedVERBtoPARTkillVERBmePRON,PUNCT”PUNCTansweredVERBBallPROPN-PUNCTCarrierPROPN,PUNCTthrowingVERBtheDETbridgeNOUNacrossADPtheDETwaterNOUNasSCONJhePRONspokeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_10 triedpunct
2YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos5 willdiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Yespunct
4IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 willnsubj
5willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin10 triedaux
6,,PUNCT_10 triedpunct
7thoughthoughSCONJ_10 triedmark
8youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 triednsubj
9havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 triedaux
10triedtryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part16 answeredadvcl
11totoPART_12 killmark
12killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf10 triedxcomp
13meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 killobj
14,,PUNCT_10 triedpunct
15”"PUNCT_10 triedpunct
16answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17BallBallPROPNNumber=Sing16 answeredobj
18--PUNCT_19 Carrierpunct
19CarrierCarrierPROPNNumber=Sing17 Ballconj
20,,PUNCT_21 throwingpunct
21throwingthrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 answeredadvcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 bridgedet
23bridgebridgeNOUNNumber=Sing21 throwingobj
24acrossacrossADP_26 watercase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 waterdet
26waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing21 throwingobl
27asasSCONJ_29 spokemark
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 spokensubj
29spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 throwingadvcl
30..PUNCT_16 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1try in a quotefuture · perfectyouvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2kill not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitiveyou not said hereBall and Carrier = ballvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3answer speech: assertpastBall and Carriervn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4throwgerundBall and Carrier not said herethe bridgethe watervn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme
5speak speech: otherpastCarriervn talk-37.5 «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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