The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 55
“Where is it?” she asked, and Ball-Carrier lifted his right arm, and pointed to his arm-pit.
Who acts: grandson, woman, Ball · What happens: be, ask, lift, point · To what, where: right arm, arm pit · 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 (grandson, woman, Ball), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lifted | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 11 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Carrier | punct |
| 13 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ball | conj |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arm | amod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pointed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pointed | cc |
| 20 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lifted | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pit | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pit | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 arm | punct |
| 25 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pointed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | grandson | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift | past | Ball and Carrier | Carrier's right arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | point | participle | Carrier's arm pit | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pit=Recipient |
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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