The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 75
“Why are you trying to kill all my servants?” asked the chief.
Who acts: you, chief · What happens: try, kill, ask · To what, where: servants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chief), 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 trying | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 trying | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 servants | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kill | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my servants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the chief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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