The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 67
And the man replied, ‘Why, I’ve merely been gathering a handful of brushwood.’
Who acts: man, I · What happens: reply, gather · To what, where: handful
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Why | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Why | punct |
| 7 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 replied | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathering | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gathering | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gathering | aux |
| 11 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 13 gathering | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 gathering | aux |
| 13 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 handful | det |
| 15 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gathering | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brushwood | case |
| 17 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handful | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathering | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gather | present · perfect · progressive | I | a handful of brushwood | merely property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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