The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 72

'Why, it was you, of course, jackal!

Who acts: work · What happens: be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work), 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	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 you	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Why	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jackal	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 jackal	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jackal	punct
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Why	vocative
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	work	you					tree rules

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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