The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 89
“You cannot escape from me,” it was saying, when he had gathered his senses again.
Who acts: You, thing, prince · What happens: not escape, say, gather · To what, where: senses · 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 (You, thing, 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 | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 escape | advmod |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saying | csubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | aux |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gathered | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 gathered | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gathered | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gathered | aux |
| 17 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 senses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gathered | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 gathered | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape in a quote | can | You | from thing | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gather | past · perfect | prince | prince's senses | again | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=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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