The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 62
You who have hardly left your long clothes behind you!’ but she did not mind being laughed at, and answered,
Who acts: sister · What happens: leave, not mind, laugh, answer · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clothes | amod |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 mind | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mind | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 mind | advmod |
| 17 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | conj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 laughed | aux:pass |
| 19 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mind | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 laughed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 answered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 answered | cc |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · perfect · passive | You | behind you; hardly property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme clothes=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not mind | past · do-support | sister | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund · passive | sister not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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