The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 38
The giant was full of pity for the poor young man, but inquired anxiously what he had done with the eyes.
Who acts: giant, Weeping · What happens: be, inquire, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, Weeping), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pity | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 inquired | cc |
| 14 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 15 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 14 inquired | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 inquired | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 done | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giant | of pity for the poor young man; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the giant not said here | anxiously property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Weeping | with the eyes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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