English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 4

But sometimes it would be in a good temper, and then!--“What's a Brownie?” you say.

Who acts: bed, Brownie · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good temper, Brownie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, Brownie), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 temper	cc
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 temper	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 temper	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 temper	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 temper	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 temper	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 temper	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 temper	amod
9	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 say	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 Brownie	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Brownie	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 Brownie	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Brownie	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Brownie	det
19	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 say	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 Brownie	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 Brownie	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 temper	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 temper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	bed		a good temper		sometimes property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		a Brownie				tree rules
3	say speech: ask	present	a Brownie			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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