The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 89
“Don’t you know me NOW?” asked she.
Who acts: youth · What happens: not know, ask · To what, where: me, youth · 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 | _ | 10 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 | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | NOW | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present | youth | me | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | youth | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient 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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