The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 49

But Koane only answered sulkily: “I told you I am not going to drive them out at all.

Who acts: Koane · What happens: answer, tell, not go, drive out · To what, where: you, trees, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koane), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 going	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 going	advmod
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drive	mark
16	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drive	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 drive	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 drive	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Koane				sulkily property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Koane		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go in a quote	present · progressive	Koane					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drive out in a quote	to-infinitive	Koane not said here	trees = tree		all		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at all=Destination

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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