The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 112
“You poor thing! how can you repay me?” asked the prince.
Who acts: You, prince · What happens: thing, repay, ask · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, prince), 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 | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 repay | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 repay | advmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 repay | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 repay | nsubj |
| 9 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thing | appos |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 repay | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 repay | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 repay | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | repay in a quote | can | you | the prince = prince | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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