The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 90
‘Indeed I will not,’ answered she, ‘an ugly brute is the hoodie.’
Who acts: ugly brute · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: daughter, hoodie
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugly brute), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 will | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 will | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoodie | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoodie | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 brute | det |
| 13 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brute | amod |
| 14 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hoodie | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hoodie | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hoodie | det |
| 17 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoodie | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoodie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | future | daughter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a ugly brute | the hoodie | 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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