The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 70

But the youth had no pity, and went on blowing, till suddenly the old magician appeared and asked: “What danger are you in, my son, that you have sent for me?”

Who acts: youth, old magician, you · What happens: have, go, blow, appear, ask, danger · To what, where: pity, danger, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, old magician, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 pity	det
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 blowing	mark
11	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 appeared	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 appeared	mark
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 appeared	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 magician	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 magician	amod
17	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 appeared	nsubj
18	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 appeared	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 danger	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 danger	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 danger	nsubj
24	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obl
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 in	cop
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 in	nsubj
27	in	in	ADV	_	24 danger	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danger	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 sent	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 sent	nsubj:pass
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sent	aux
35	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 appeared	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 sent	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the youth	no pity		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	go	past	the youth not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	gerund	the youth not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	appear	past	the old magician		suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	past	the old magician not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	danger in a quote					tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	you	danger and my son not said here	in property	tree rules
8	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you	for the old magician = magician	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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