The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 72
‘Leave me in peace, old woman,’ replied he.
Who acts: head · What happens: leave, reply · To what, where: me, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 peace | case |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peace | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | me | peace and old woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | head | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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