The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 42
'Don't you know that either?' cried the mother in surprise.
Who acts: you · What happens: not know, cry · To what, where: either, surprise
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 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 | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 cried | mark |
| 7 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cried | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 either | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 either | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | infinitive · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | either | surprise | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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