The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 33

‘But why should you take all this interest in me?’ asked the peasant suspiciously.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, ask · To what, where: interest, peasant suspiciously · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. 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	_	6 take	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 take	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 interest	det:predet
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 interest	det
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 interest	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 suspiciously	det
16	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 suspiciously	amod
17	suspiciously	suspiciously	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	should	you	all interest				in me	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in i=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past		the peasant suspiciously					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent suspiciously=Recipient 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 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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