The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 45

But her mother only cried: “Wretch! have you not wasted goods and possessions, and now do you talk of making a will?”

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: cry, not waste, talk, make · To what, where: Wretch · 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 (mother, 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	_	5 cried	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Wretch	punct
8	Wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wasted	nsubj:pass
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Wretch	punct
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wasted	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wasted	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 wasted	advmod
13	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cried	conj
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 wasted	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 possessions	cc
16	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 goods	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 talk	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 talk	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 talk	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 talk	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 talk	nsubj
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	advcl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 talk	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 will	det
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 making	aux
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 talk	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	daughter's mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not waste in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Wretch		tree rules
3	talk in a quote	present · do-support	you		now	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make in a quote	future	you not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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