The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 87
“No, no; I don’t know you,” answered the youth, without raising his eyes.
Who acts: youth · What happens: not know, answer, raise · To what, where: you, eyes · 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 (youth), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 raising | punct |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 raising | mark |
| 18 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 raising | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the youth = youth | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | the youth not said here | bridegroom's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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