The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 82

“Oh, do ask Lucky Luck,” cried the brook, “why, though I am such a clear, bright, rapid stream I never have a fish or any other living creature in my waters.”

Who acts: brook · What happens: ask, cry, be, not have, live · To what, where: Lucky, clear bright rapid stream, fish · 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 (brook), 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	_	5 ask	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 ask	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
6	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
7	Luck	Luck	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Lucky	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brook	det
12	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 cried	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 stream	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stream	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stream	cop
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 stream	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stream	det
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stream	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clear	punct
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stream	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bright	punct
26	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stream	amod
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	advcl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 have	advmod
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 creature	cc
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 creature	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creature	amod
36	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 creature	amod
37	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fish	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 waters	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 waters	nmod:poss
40	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 creature	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive · do-support			Lucky	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lucky=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past	the brook			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	the brook = brook	such clear bright rapid stream		tree rules
4	not have in a quote	present	the brook = brook	a fish or any other living creature in my waters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
5	live in a quote	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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