The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 99
‘Oh! certainly, we quite agree to that,’ said the brothers in one breath.
Who acts: we · What happens: agree, say · To what, where: brothers, one breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 agree | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 agree | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 agree | advmod |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 agree | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 breath | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 breath | nummod |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | we | to that | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the brothers | one breath | 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 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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