The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 52

‘Won’t you speak to me to-day?’

Who acts: you · What happens: not speak · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. 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	_	5 speak	punct
2	Wo	wo	INTJ	_	5 speak	discourse
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present	you		me		day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent

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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