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title: “Don’t you know me?” asked the Sister of the Sun, bending over him w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t you know me?” asked the Sister of the Sun, bending over him where he lay, almost driven out of his senses with terror. Who acts: Sister, bridegroom. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 86

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“Don’t you know me?” asked the Sister of the Sun, bending over him where he lay, almost driven out of his senses with terror.

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**Who acts:** Sister, bridegroom · **What happens:** not know, ask, bend, lie, drive out · **To what, where:** me, Sister, senses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, bridegroom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:23:86
# text = “Don’t you know me?” asked the Sister of the Sun, bending over him where he lay, almost driven out of his senses with terror.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | the Sister of the Sun *= sister* | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the Sister of the Sun |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over bridegroom | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | past | bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive out** | participle | bridegroom *not said here* | bridegroom's senses with terror |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sens=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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