--- title: ‘Leave me alone, and do not seek to know the reason,’ replied she, b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Leave me alone, and do not seek to know the reason,’ replied she, bursting into tears, and the man thought that it was no time to question her, and went away to his work. Who acts: wife, man, reason. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, man, reason), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:13:6 # text = ‘Leave me alone, and do not seek to know the reason,’ replied she, bursting into tears, and the man thought that it was no time to question her, and went away to his work. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 16 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 bursting burst VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 question question VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | infinitive | | me | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **not** **seek** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the reason | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **burst** | gerund | wife *not said here* | | | tears | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the man | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | reason | no time | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **question** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* | | wife | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 9 | **go away** | past | the man *not said here* | | | man's work | | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **work** | | man | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/7/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)