The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 19

‘Why, you can’t have been as big as that when you were in the hole!’ cried Virgilius.

Who acts: you · What happens: not be, be, cry · To what, where: hole

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. 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	_	10 big	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 big	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 big	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 big	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 big	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 big	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 big	cop
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cried	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 big	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 hole	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 hole	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hole	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hole	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 big	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cried	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	can · perfect	you		as that; big property	tree rules
2	is	past	you	the hole		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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