The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 93
“Why can’t you leave that pair of old shoes alone?” said he.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: not leave, say · To what, where: pair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 n’t | advmod |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 n’t | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 leave | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shoes | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoes | amod |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 shoes | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave in a quote | present | you | that pair of old shoes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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