The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 74
“Get off, get off! can’t you see that you are on my legs?”
Who acts: you · What happens: get off, not see, be · To what, where: legs
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), 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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Get | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | conj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 legs | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 legs | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get off in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | my legs | tree rules |
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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