The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 90
Did you really think I was going to leave you in peace?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, go, leave · To what, where: you, peace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 peace | case |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in peace=Location |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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