The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 95
‘By repeating what I learnt from your brother Bryak on the edge of the forest,’ replied the idiot.
Who acts: I · What happens: repeat, learn, reply · To what, where: edge, idiot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 3 repeating | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 repeating | mark |
| 3 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 learnt | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 6 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeating | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | obl |
| 10 | Bryak | Bryak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | appos |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeating | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeating | punct |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 idiot | det |
| 21 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | learn | past | I | the edge of the forest | from your brother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from brother=Source | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the idiot | 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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