The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 94
“I didn’t strike you,” said the other, “you must be dreaming.”
Who acts: other, you · What happens: not strike, say, dream · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, 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 strike | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strike | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 strike | advmod |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 strike | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 strike | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreaming | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreaming | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 dreaming | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dreaming | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dreaming | aux |
| 17 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreaming | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dreaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike in a quote | past · do-support | the other = other | you | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dream in a quote | must · progressive | you | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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