The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 79

‘My friends,’ called out Simon to then, ‘what do you accuse me of?

Who acts: you · What happens: call out, accuse · To what, where: friends, me

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), 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	_	6 called	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 called	nsubj:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 then	case
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 accuse	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 accuse	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 accuse	obj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 accuse	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 accuse	nsubj
16	accuse	accuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 accuse	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	16 accuse	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		My friends					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to then=Recipient
2	accuse	present · do-support	you	me					tree rules

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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