The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 75
“Oh, well, let her try,” replied Ball-Carrier.
Who acts: wife, Ball Carrier · What happens: let, try, reply · To what, where: wife · 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 (wife, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Carrier | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ball | punct |
| 14 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | infinitive | wife not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Ball Carrier | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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