The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 33

“So you would not marry me!” chuckled the old witch.

Who acts: you · What happens: not marry, chuckle · To what, where: woman, old witch

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	10 chuckled	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	6 marry	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 marry	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 marry	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 marry	advmod
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chuckled	parataxis
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 marry	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
10	chuckled	chuckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 witch	amod
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chuckled	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chuckled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry in a quote	would	you	woman					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	chuckle	past		the old witch					tree rules

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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