The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 69
“I have taken the wrong basket—by mistake, of course,” said he.
Who acts: voice · What happens: take, say · To what, where: wrong basket · 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 (voice), 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 | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 basket | amod |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mistake | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 mistake | case |
| 10 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 of | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 10 mistake | advmod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present · perfect | voice | the wrong basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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