The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 83
“But why did you not call him by his name, as I told you?” she asked.
Who acts: you, Ogre, Motikatika · What happens: not call, tell, ask, name · To what, where: Motikatika, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ogre, Motikatika), 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 | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 call | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 call | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 call | advmod |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | you | Motikatika | by Motikatika's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Ogre | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Ogre | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name in a quote | Motikatika | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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