The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 41

How could we be so ungrateful as to disobey you, when you are so kind?’

Who acts: we, you · What happens: be, disobey · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 ungrateful	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ungrateful	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ungrateful	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ungrateful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 ungrateful	advmod
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 disobey	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 disobey	mark
9	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ungrateful	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 disobey	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 kind	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 kind	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kind	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 kind	advmod
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ungrateful	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	could	we		ungrateful property	tree rules
2	disobey	to-infinitive	we not said here	you		tree rules
3	is	present	you		kind 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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