The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 9

‘Good gracious!’ cried she, ‘why cannot you let things be as they are?

Who acts: you, things · What happens: cry, not let, be · To what, where: wife, things

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, things), 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	_	3 gracious	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gracious	amod
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	parataxis
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 let	advmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 let	obj
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 are	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 are	nsubj
19	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 be	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		wife	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	not let	can	you	things	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	things not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	does	present	things = thing		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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