The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 117

And in the evening, when the young man was alone with his wife, she said to him, ‘Why would you not let me touch you when you came back, but always thrust me away when I tried to put my arms round you or kiss you?’

Who acts: young man, court, you, me, I · What happens: be, say, not let, touch, come back, thrust away · To what, where: man, me, you, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, court, you, me), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 evening	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wife	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wife	cop
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 wife	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evening	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
22	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 let	advmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 touch	obj
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 came	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 touch	advcl
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thrust	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 thrust	cc
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 thrust	advmod
37	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 thrust	obj
39	away	away	ADV	_	37 thrust	advmod
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 tried	advmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 tried	nsubj
42	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thrust	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 put	mark
44	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 tried	xcomp
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 arms	nmod:poss
46	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 put	obj
47	round	round	ADP	_	48 you	case
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 put	obl
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 kiss	cc
50	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 put	conj
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 kiss	obj
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young man				with man's wife; alone property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	court		man	evening		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	not let	would	you	me				tree rules
4	touch	infinitive	me not said here	you				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme
5	come back	past	you					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	thrust away	infinitive	you not said here	me			always, away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	try	past	I					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my arms			round you	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
9	kiss	infinitive	I not said here	you				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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 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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