The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 108
“You are mocking me, Pivi!
Who acts: You · What happens: mock · To what, where: Pivi
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | _ | 4 mocking | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mocking | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mocking | aux |
| 4 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 mocking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pivi | punct |
| 7 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mocking | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 mocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock in a quote | present · progressive | You | Pivi | Pivi obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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