The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 82

“Ah, you are so big that he does not see I am behind you,” answered the wild cat.

Who acts: you, bear, wild cat · What happens: be, not see, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bear, wild cat), 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 big	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 big	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 big	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 big	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 answered	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 big	advcl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 behind	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 behind	cop
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 big	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 big	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cat	amod
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you	big property	tree rules
2	not see in a quote	present · do-support	bear	behind you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	answer speech: assert	past	the wild cat		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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