The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 7
"Is this your constancy?" she exclaimed tearfully. "
Who acts: many · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: constancy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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 constancy | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 constancy | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 constancy | det |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 constancy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 constancy | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 constancy | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tearfully | tearfully | ADV | _ | 9 exclaimed | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your constancy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | many | tearfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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