The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 16

“Were you really not dead after all?” asked they.

Who acts: you, people · What happens: not be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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	_	6 dead	punct
2	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 asked	ccomp
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dead	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	past	you				after all	dead property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	people						vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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