The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 58
First, she took the gold and said to Ball-carrier:
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: take, say · To what, where: gold, Ball 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 (grandmother), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 carrier | case |
| 10 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carrier | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ball | punct |
| 12 | carrier | carrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | grandmother | the gold | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grandmother not said here | Ball carrier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to carrier=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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