The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 87
'And are you not a knave for robbing me?' said she.
Who acts: you, knave · What happens: not be, rob, say · To what, where: knave, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, knave), 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 knave | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knave | cc |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knave | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 knave | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knave | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knave | det |
| 7 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 robbing | mark |
| 9 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 robbing | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbing | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 robbing | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | you | a knave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rob | gerund | a knave not said here | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a knave | 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: «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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