The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 90

“No, I don’t know you—I don’t know you,” he replied, with the manner of a man whom fear had driven mad.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not know, reply, drive · To what, where: you, fear · 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 (boy), 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	_	7 know	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 replied	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	obj
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 replied	nsubj
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 manner	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 manner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 manner	det
22	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 manner	nmod
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 driven	obj
27	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 driven	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 driven	aux
29	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 man	acl:relcl
30	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 driven	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	boy	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	boy	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	reply speech: assert	past	boy		with the manner of a man	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drive	past · perfect · passive		fear	mad property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme whom=Destination

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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