The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 12

With whom did you talk at the little window, if it was not with me?’

Who acts: you, ring · What happens: talk, not be · To what, where: little window

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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, ring), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 talk	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 window	amod
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 me	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 me	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 me	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 me	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 me	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talk	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · do-support	you			the little window			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with whom=Co-Agent
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	ring					with 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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