The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 38

‘In the forest,’ answered the man, and the cruel brother guessed at once it must be his sister.

Who acts: cruel brother, forest · What happens: answer, guess, be · To what, where: man, forest, sister

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel brother, forest), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 forest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forest	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 guessed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 guessed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brother	det
13	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brother	amod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guessed	nsubj
15	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 guessed	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sister	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sister	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sister	cop
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sister	nmod:poss
22	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 once	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the man	the forest		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	guess	past	the cruel brother				once property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	forest	brother's sister				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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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