The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 6

“It is my father, I am sure,” she cried; and the bird piped in answer.

Who acts: redbreast, father, girl, bird · What happens: be, cry, pipe · To what, where: father, answer · 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 (redbreast, father, girl, bird), 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	_	9 sure	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 father	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 father	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sure	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sure	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sure	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 piped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 piped	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piped	nsubj
18	piped	pipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sure	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 answer	case
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piped	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	redbreast	my father			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	my father			sure property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	girl				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pipe	participle	the bird		answer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location

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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