The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 48

‘You don’t mean to tell me that you can go on sleeping till mid-day?’

Who acts: You · What happens: not mean, tell, go · To what, where: me, sleeping · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	_	5 mean	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 sleeping	case
14	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
15	till	till	ADP	_	16 mid-day	case
16	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	You				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	can	you		sleeping	till mid-day	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sleeping=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 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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