The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 101

All of a sudden Lucky Luck began to speak and said: “Tell me, what sort of man are you, for since you came here you have not spoken a word?”

Who acts: All, you · What happens: begin, speak, say, tell, be, come · To what, where: you, All, word, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 began	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 Luck	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Luck	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Luck	amod
5	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Luck	compound
6	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Tell	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Tell	punct
14	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sort	punct
17	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 sort	det
18	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Tell	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sort	nmod
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 you	cop
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 Tell	iobj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	27 came	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 spoken	advcl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 came	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 spoken	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 spoken	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 spoken	advmod
32	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 Tell	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 word	det
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spoken	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 Tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	All				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	All not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	All not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		you	All		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present		you			tree rules
6	come in a quote	past	you			here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	you	a word			tree rules
8	sort in a quote			man			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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