The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 44
“I don’t care where you brought him from,” said the spoilt girl.
Who acts: spoilt girl, you · What happens: not care, bring, say · To what, where: coach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spoilt girl, you), 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 | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 brought | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | spoilt | spoilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | the spoilt girl = girl | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | past | you | coach | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the spoilt girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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