The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 92
“You have a bad brother,” she said; “I saw he turned you out.
Who acts: You, Felicia, brother · What happens: have, say, see, turn out · To what, where: bad brother, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Felicia, brother), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 turned | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | You | a bad brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Felicia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Felicia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | turn out in a quote | past | brother | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme |
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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