The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 108

“Wife, I have told you a dozen times already that I am not going to get up.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not go, get up · To what, where: Wife, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 told	punct
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dozen	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obl:unmarked
11	already	already	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 going	advmod
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 get	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Wife	you	time	tree rules
2	not go in a quote	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get up in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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