The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 26
‘It is I, the brownie of the lake,’ replied the voice.
Who acts: surprise, brownie · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: brownie, voice
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surprise, brownie), 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 brownie | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brownie | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brownie | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brownie | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brownie | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brownie | det |
| 7 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brownie | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brownie | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 brownie | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | surprise | the brownie | of the lake | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the brownie | the voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
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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