The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 45
Then the Fire-son replied with a laugh, ‘Don’t be angry, dear brother!
What happens: reply, not be · To what, where: Fire son
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 son | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 3 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fire | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 son | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 laugh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 laugh | det |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 angry | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brother | punct |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 angry | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the Fire son not said here | with a laugh | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with laugh=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | angry property | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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