The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 11
'Don't you know me, mother?' he said with a laugh.
Who acts: you, camel · What happens: not know, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, camel), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 laugh | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 laugh | det |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | infinitive · do-support | you | me | mother obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | camel | with a laugh | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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