The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 63

“Kill my dear little dog, who had been my playfellow since he was a puppy?” exclaimed he.

Who acts: dear little dog, prince · What happens: kill, be, exclaim · To what, where: dear little dog, playfellow, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear little dog, prince), 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	_	2 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 exclaimed	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kill	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 playfellow	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 playfellow	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 playfellow	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 playfellow	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 playfellow	nmod:poss
12	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	conj
13	since	since	ADP	_	17 puppy	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 puppy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 puppy	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 puppy	det
17	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kill	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 exclaimed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	kill in a quote	infinitive		my dear little dog and my playfellow		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	is a in a quote	past · perfect	my dear little dog and my playfellow	my playfellow		tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	prince		since a puppy	tree rules
4	exclaim speech: express	past		prince		tree rules

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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