The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 30
“Brother,” replied the man, “if he is yours, take him.”
Who acts: Brother, man · What happens: reply, be, take · To what, where: man, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, man), 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 | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yours | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 yours | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 yours | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 yours | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 yours | cop |
| 13 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 man | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Brother | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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