The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 54
Why did they lie to me? and why did you leave my house where you were safe?’
Who acts: stories, you · What happens: lie, leave, be · To what, where: me, house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lie | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lie | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 leave | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lie | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 safe | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 safe | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 safe | cop |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · do-support | stories = story | me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · do-support | you | my house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | safe property | 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 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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