The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 50

“Here, in my left arm-pit,” answered he.

What happens: answer · To what, where: Carrier, left arm pit

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 pit	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pit	nmod:poss
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pit	amod
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pit	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 arm	punct
9	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pit	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 pit	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Carrier	my left arm pit			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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