The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 24

“‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now?

Who acts: ‘, fault, you · What happens: be, answer, not understand, fault · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, fault, 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 it	nsubj
3	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 fault	cc
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ‘	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj:outer
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 it	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 it	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 understood	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 understood	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 understood	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 understood	advmod
18	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 answered	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 understood	obj
20	until	until	ADP	_	21 now	case
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 understood	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	‘ and ‘ and ‘'s fault's fault	fault	tree rules
2	answer speech: ask in a quote	past	fault		tree rules
3	not understand in a quote	present · perfect	you	fault	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	fault in a quote		‘ and ‘ and fault's fault		nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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