The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 71
“Why, what are you talking about?” answered she.
Who acts: rent · What happens: talk about, answer · To what, where: rent · 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 (rent), 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 talking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 talking | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 talking | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 talking | nsubj |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 talking | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about in a quote | present · progressive | rent | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: ask | past | rent | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=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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