The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 45

‘Oh, you simpleton!’ cried Nina; ‘didn’t you see that they were only playing you a trick?

Who acts: you, simpleton, rascals · What happens: simpleton, cry, not do, see, play · To what, where: trick, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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, simpleton, rascals), 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 simpleton	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 simpleton	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 simpleton	nsubj
5	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 simpleton	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 simpleton	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	flat
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 did	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 playing	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 playing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 playing	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 playing	advmod
20	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 see	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 playing	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 trick	det
23	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 playing	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	simpleton		you			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	simpleton			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do	past	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	play	past · progressive	rascals = rascal	a trick	you	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary trick=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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