The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 228

Oh! why did I not follow the old man’s advice?

Who acts: I · What happens: not follow · To what, where: advice

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 follow	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 follow	advmod
7	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 advice	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 follow	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	present	I	the old man's advice					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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