The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 57

'Can you ruffle your fur when you are angry, or purr when you are pleased?' said she.

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: ruffle, be, purr, say · To what, where: fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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	_	4 ruffle	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ruffle	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ruffle	nsubj
4	ruffle	ruffle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fur	nmod:poss
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruffle	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 angry	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 angry	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ruffle	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 purr	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 purr	cc
13	purr	purr	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ruffle	conj
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 pleased	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pleased	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pleased	cop
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 purr	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ruffle	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 ruffle	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ruffle	can	you	your fur		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fur=Experiencer
2	is	present	you		angry property	tree rules
3	purr	infinitive	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you		pleased property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	woman			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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