The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 25
Again brother did not drink, but he said:
Who acts: brother · What happens: not drink, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 brother | advmod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 drink | advmod |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drink | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drink | past · do-support | brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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