The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 95
“Oh, I come from a place where they don’t keep these things by the dozen,” he replied, sitting down in front of the table.
Who acts: lid, rolls · What happens: come, not keep, reply, sit down · To what, where: place, things, front · 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 (lid, rolls), 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 | _ | 22 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 replied | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 keep | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 keep | advmod |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 dozen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dozen | det |
| 18 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 keep | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 replied | nsubj |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sitting | punct |
| 24 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 replied | advcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 sitting | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sitting | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 table | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 table | det |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 front | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | lid | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not keep in a quote | present · do-support | rolls = roll | this things | by the dozen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme by dozen=Location | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | lid | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sit down | gerund | lid not said here | front of the table | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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