The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 75
“Why did you not leave me alone?” asked the rock.
Who acts: you, rock · What happens: not leave, ask · To what, where: rock · Speech: someone speaks here
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, rock), 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 | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 leave | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 leave | advmod |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave in a quote | past · do-support | you | the rock = rock | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the rock | 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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