The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 9

“Why did you not tell me it would bite?” he asked.

Who acts: you, snake, stag · What happens: not tell, bite, ask · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, snake, stag), 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 tell	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tell	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bite	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bite	aux
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bite in a quote	would	snake		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	stag		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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