The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 66
Why did you do this? for I have treated you more kindly than all my other pages.’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: do, treat, page · To what, where: this, I
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 do | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 treated | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 treated | aux |
| 10 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 do | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 treated | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 kindly | advmod |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 10 treated | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 pages | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 pages | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pages | nmod:poss |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pages | amod |
| 18 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kindly | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | you | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | treat | present · perfect · passive | I | kindly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | page | my | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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