The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 85
“That will suit me very well,” replied the woman, who was a witch.
Who acts: That, woman · What happens: suit, reply, be · To what, where: woman, witch · 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 (That, woman), 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 | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 suit | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 suit | aux |
| 4 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 suit | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 suit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 witch | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 witch | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 witch | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit in a quote | future | That | the woman and a witch = woman | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman and a witch | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the woman and a witch | a witch | tree rules |
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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