The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 71
“You are trying to tease me,” she cried, as soon as she saw him.
Who acts: You, princess · What happens: try, tease, cry, see · To what, where: princess, gnome · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, princess), 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 | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | aux |
| 4 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tease | mark |
| 6 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trying | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tease | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soon | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 cried | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 saw | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 soon | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · progressive | You | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tease not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | princess | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | princess | soon property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | princess | gnome | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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