The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 61
‘Let me alone,’ replied Ciccu; ‘I know what I am about.’
Who acts: Ciccu, I · What happens: let, reply, know · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 Let | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 am | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 am | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 am | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | me | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Ciccu | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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