The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 69
‘What is my brother saying?’ asked his sister again.
Who acts: brother, sister · What happens: say, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3817): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 saying | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | aux |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | nsubj |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · progressive | my brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King's sister | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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