The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 86

“Don’t you know me?” asked the Sister of the Sun, bending over him where he lay, almost driven out of his senses with terror.

Who acts: Sister, bridegroom · What happens: not know, ask, bend, lie, drive out · To what, where: me, Sister, senses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, bridegroom), 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	_	9 asked	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 n’t	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sister	det
11	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sister	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bending	punct
16	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	advcl
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bending	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lay	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bending	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 driven	punct
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 driven	advmod
24	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lay	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 senses	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 senses	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 senses	nmod:poss
28	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 driven	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 terror	case
30	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 senses	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present	the Sister of the Sun = sister	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past			the Sister of the Sun		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bend	gerund				over bridegroom	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location
4	lie	past	bridegroom				tree rules
5	drive out	participle	bridegroom not said here	bridegroom's senses with terror		almost property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sens=Trajectory

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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