The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 15
Why did you not condescend to consult me?
Who acts: you · What happens: not condescend, consult · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1136): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 condescend | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 condescend | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 condescend | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 condescend | advmod |
| 5 | condescend | condescend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 consult | mark |
| 7 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 condescend | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 consult | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 condescend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not condescend | past · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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