The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 17
“And if not, why did you let yourself be buried?”
Who acts: you, yourself · What happens: let, bury · To what, where: yourself
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, yourself), 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 | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 not | mark |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 let | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 let | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 buried | aux:pass |
| 12 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 let | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | past · do-support | you | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bury in a quote | infinitive · passive | yourself not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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