The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 46
“Be quick, be quick, and pick them up,” cried the man.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, pick up, cry · To what, where: tables · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quick | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pick | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pick | cc |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pick | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pick | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pick up in a quote | infinitive | tables = table | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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