The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 8

“Indeed, child,” she said, “your father had a brother, but I always thought he was dead.”

Who acts: child, father · What happens: say, have, think, be · To what, where: child, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, father), 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 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 child	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 brother	det
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 thought	advmod
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dead	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	cop
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	child	child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	your father	a brother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	child		always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	father		dead property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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