The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 54
“Yes, grandmother, I got that too,” answered he.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, answer · To what, where: that, Carrier · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandmother | punct |
| 4 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | I | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | I not said here | Carrier | 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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