The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 102
“Do you expect me to go about in such a coat as that?
Who acts: you, useless creature · What happens: expect, go · To what, where: useless creature
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, useless creature), 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 expect | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expect | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 coat | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coat | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 coat | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 go | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present · do-support | you | what useless creature = creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | what useless creature = creature not said here | about such coat; as that | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about coat=Location |
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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