The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 65

'Why did you choose to play shinny in front of my castle when you knew full well that the remembrance of my daughters would come back to me?

Who acts: you, remembrance · What happens: choose, play, know, come back, remember · To what, where: shinny, front, me, daughters

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, remembrance), 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 choose	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 choose	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 choose	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 choose	nsubj
5	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 choose	xcomp
8	shinny	shinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 castle	nmod:poss
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 knew	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 play	advcl
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 knew	xcomp
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 knew	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 remembrance	det
21	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 daughters	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughters	nmod:poss
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 remembrance	nmod
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past · do-support	you					tree rules
2	play	to-infinitive	you not said here	shinny		front of my castle		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shinny=Theme
3	know	past	you				full, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come back	would	the remembrance of my daughters		me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
5	remember			my daughters				nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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