The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 44
And without waiting for an answer he whispered to the basket: “Little basket, little basket, do your duty.”
Who acts: Eh · What happens: wait, whisper, do · To what, where: answer, basket, duty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 waiting | cc |
| 2 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 3 waiting | mark |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 answer | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answer | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 basket | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispered | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 basket | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 basket | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 basket | amod |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 basket | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 basket | punct |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 basket | amod |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 basket | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waiting | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 duty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Eh | a answer not said here | the basket | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Topic to basket=Recipient | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | your duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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