The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 42
“You with a good business?” cried she, “you are good for nothing but talk!”
Who acts: You · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: piece · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 business | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 business | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 business | amod |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 You | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 good | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 talk | cc |
| 19 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 good | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | You | piece | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | for nothing; good property | tree rules |
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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