The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 80
“But, my good man, it was only yesterday that I gave you a handsome present.”
Who acts: garden, voice · What happens: be, give · To what, where: yesterday, you
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 (garden, 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 man | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 man | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 yesterday | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 yesterday | cop |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 yesterday | advmod |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gave | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 yesterday | acl:relcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 present | det |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 present | amod |
| 18 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | garden | yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | a voice = voice | yesterday | you | tree rules |
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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