The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 40

I shouted down into the well: ‘O! servant of God! whoever you are, why do you deal unfairly with me?

Who acts: I, you · What happens: shout down, be, deal · To what, where: well, whoever

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 shouted	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 well	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
9	O	o	INTJ	_	11 servant	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 well	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 God	case
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 servant	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 servant	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 are	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 whoever	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deal	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 deal	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 deal	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 deal	nsubj
22	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shouted	conj
23	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	_	22 deal	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 deal	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout down speech: express	past	I		the well and servant of God	down property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into well=Recipient
2	is a	present	I not said here	whoever			tree rules
3	deal	present · do-support	you			with me; unfairly property	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with i=Theme

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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