The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 92

‘What! you scoundrel!’ they cried at last, ‘we drowned you yesterday, and to-day we find you again, as well as ever!’

Who acts: you, farmers, we · What happens: scoundrel, cry, drown, find · To what, where: last, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, farmers, we), 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 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 cried	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 scoundrel	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 scoundrel	nsubj
5	scoundrel	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 scoundrel	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 scoundrel	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drowned	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 drowned	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 drowned	nsubj
15	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 drowned	obj
17	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drowned	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 as	punct
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	9 cried	advmod
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 as	fixed
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	scoundrel		you				tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	farmers = farmer		last		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	drown	past	we	you		yesterday	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	find	present	we	you		again; day	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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